"Are you kidding? This is the Metropolitan Opera!" What brings one out to the Metropolitan Opera Opening Night Gala needs no ...

How he and his collaborators did it will be on display at the Metropolitan ... decided to lop off the opening chapters, which take place on land. They set the entire opera aboard the whale ...

It’s the Metropolitan Opera premiere of the 2010 adaptation of Herman Melville’s 19th century classic story. Composer Jake Heggie did the music, collaborating with librettist Gene Scheer on ...

monochromatic 2010 adaptation has come to the Metropolitan Opera. By Zachary Woolfe The opening line of Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” is one of the most famous in literature. But Jake Heggie ...

Walters When “Moby-Dick” opens at the Metropolitan Opera this week ... This frequently cited passage in the book’s opening paragraph carries a pattern of stress and intonation.

How he and his collaborators did it will be on display at the Metropolitan ... decided to lop off the opening chapters, which take place on land. They set the entire opera aboard the whale-hunting ...

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, ...