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 ...

"I see a madman beget madmen," Starbuck declares as the chase after Moby Dick is nearing its end, and as Captain Ahab is firing the crew of the Pequod to a frenzy of excitement. The trouble is ...

I was overly aware of my response the night I saw Moby-Dick at the Met. I don’t know the first thing about opera and, more worryingly, I’ve become known to friends as a person who won’t stop talking ...

This classic story by Herman Melville revolves around Captain Ahab and his obsession with a huge whale, Moby Dick. The whale caused the loss of Ahab's leg years before, leaving Ahab to stomp the ...

A few days ago, someone posed a question on X. The person noted that Musk ... why he does what he does? That is Moby Dick. Of late, I keep seeing Ahab â the eponymous villain of the Herman ...

brush up on your knowledge of Captain Ahab, Queequeg, and the titular big fella himself with these five riffs on the novel. 1. Picture Book Matt Kish’s beautiful art experiment, Moby-Dick in ...

The whaling ship Paquod has been sailing for a week, but none of the crew have seen the captain, Ahab, since they left shore. When he does emerge he tells them of Moby-Dick, the white whale that ...

A crucial decision by the opera’s creators—one which ultimately lessens Moby-Dick’s impact—has been to dilute the character of Ahab. It’s his obsession to find and kill the great white ...

though the denouement—as Ahab and the ship have their fatal encounter with Moby-Dick—is visually vague. Gavan Swift’s ...

“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, ...