Curator of the museum Philippa Wood believes people have taken bones as souvenirs, with 11 of its 44 vertebrae and much of ...

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

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

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

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

The stately home in is looking to reclaim the bones of the 48-foot sperm whale after so it can be put back together ...

And it was their relentless, questing pursuit of excellence which inspired their finest artistic achievement. “Leviathan, the ...

The feature also highlighted some of New Bedford's most cherished architectural gems, including the historic Nathan and Polly ...

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

If “operatic” is a synonym for “big,” Herman Melville’s sprawling novel “Moby-Dick” should be ideal source material for the stage. Jake Heggie’s 2010 operatic treatment certainly ...