But just as Ahab obsesses over Moby-Dick, this “Moby-Dick” obsesses over Ahab, and the resulting opera is somehow both over-reduced and overproduced — a glimmering surface that betrays the ...

Image The tenor Brandon Jovanovich, center, sings Captain Ahab at a dress rehearsal of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “Moby Dick,” which opens on Monday night.Credit...Sara Krulwich ...

The title role in Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick is played by a white sperm whale that got one of Captain Ahab’s legs—and eventually got the whole of him. Moby Dick himself escaped ...

Ahab, who has lost a leg in a prior encounter with Moby-Dick, has to hobble on a wooden prosthesis. And Greenhorn — finally named Ishmael — ends the opera grabbing onto a whale hook from a ...

“The story of Moby-Dick paralleled the lives of the four dudes in Mastodon so much, [that] it was too easy for us to pick and pull similarities to Captain Ahab’s character and the pursuit of ...

The Great White Whale has been waiting in the wings of the Metropolitan Opera for years, and is still only glimpsed. No matter. It’s the menace that counts in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Moby-Dick, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window ... is captained by a peg-legged man called Ahab, obsessed with killing Moby-Dick, the white whale ...

But just as Ahab obsesses over Moby-Dick, this “Moby-Dick” obsesses over Ahab, and the resulting opera is somehow both ...