What happens when you gender-flip the tale of “Moby Dick”? Annette Young talks to British-Chinese author, Xiaolu Guo, who has done just that with her latest book, “Call Me Ishmaelle”.  Also, ...

The Metropolitan Opera ended its annual winter hiatus with two productions that chronicle their protagonists’ dangerous, intensely personal quests.

The Metropolitan Opera premiered an expanded version of Jake Heggie’s 2010 adaptation, which had its East Coast premiere at ...

Meghan Markle's lifestyle show has gotten mixed reviews since it premiered on Tuesday, March 4. The eight-episode show, which ...

Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s 2010 adaptation of Melville’s unruly novel opens this week at the Metropolitan Opera.

Oh, what a fascinating career: Brandon Jovanovich, operatic tenor from Billings, Montana, went from a cater waiter at the ...

The 58ft-long bull sperm whale washed up near Withernsea, East Yorks., on April 28, 1825. The post Skeleton of whale ...

The New York company recently opened two underpowered productions: Jake Heggie’s 2010 adaptation of the Herman Melville ...

With her stylish novel Call Me Ishmaelle, Xiaolu Guo both pays heed to the American classic and breaks out into something of ...

Streamlining Melville’s sprawling novel, Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s moody, monochromatic 2010 adaptation has come to the Metropolitan Opera.

MOBY-DICK--Herman Melville’s epic tale of obsession and man-versus-nature, succinctly adapted by composer Jake Heggie with ...

NEW YORK — On Monday, the Metropolitan Opera presented the company premiere of Jake Heggie’s “Moby-Dick” — the composer’s 2010 operatic adaptation of Herman Melville’s landmark 1851 ...