In the Heart of the Sea tells the true story of the tragedy at sea that inspired Moby Dick, including some of the most disturbing parts of the tale. Although Ron Howard's feature film adaptation ...

Walters When “Moby-Dick” opens at the Metropolitan Opera ... metaphors and allegories. The novel, at its heart, is a moral tale about how people deal with what they most fear, how they ...

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 ...

If “operatic” is a synonym for “big,” Herman Melville’s sprawling novel “Moby-Dick” should be ideal ... but there was an ...

No matter. It’s the menace that counts in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Moby-Dick, now making its Met debut some 15 years after its Dallas premiere. It signifies a breakthrough of storytelling ...

Not until the early 20th century was Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick first recognized as a literary masterpiece and touted as a cornerstone of modern American literature. Etching of Joseph O.

By Zachary Woolfe The opening line of Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” is one of the most famous in literature. But Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer, whose moody, monochromatic 2010 adaptation ...