Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” goes beyond a mere sea tale; it is actually an odyssey of philosophy for those who are ...

Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer’s award-winning opera Moby-Dick will be broadcast on THIRTEEN’s Great Performances Friday, November 1, 2013 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), as ...

SALEM — “Moby-Dick” has the most famous opening sentence in American literature: “Call me Ishmael.” That’s it, but what a lot gets packed into those three words. Now that sentence can make a further ...

The New Bedford Whaling Museum will be hosting a Portuguese Moby-Dick Mini-Marathon, featuring simultaneous readings in three ...

When Leonard Foglia was invited to direct an opera based on Herman Melville’s masterpiece about a white whale, his first reaction was: “Moby-Dick. That’s great!” “Then I ran to a used bookstore and ...

On the cover of its July issue, Opera News dubbed Jake Heggie “U.S. opera’s most successful composer.” It was an odd pronouncement for the in-house publication of the Metropolitan Opera Guild. As of ...

Herman Melville had everything a young author could dream of. By the age of 30, he’d traveled the world and written five books, including two bestsellers. He’d married the daughter of a prominent ...

The New Bedford Whaling Museum will kick off its 30th Annual Moby-Dick Marathon weekend with the Melville Scholars’ Dinner & ...

Moby Dick, Ulysses and The Sound and the Fury can cause tremors or cold sweats just by coming up on a syllabus or in conversation at a cocktail party. And there's good reason: The terrifying trio ...

Every year, the New Bedford Whaling Museum hosts a marathon reading of “Moby-Dick.” For the social distancing edition, volunteers are recording performances from home. By Jacey Fortin If these were ...