The New Bedford Whaling Museum will be hosting a Portuguese Moby-Dick Mini-Marathon, featuring simultaneous readings in three ...
Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” goes beyond a mere sea tale; it is actually an odyssey of philosophy for those who are ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jonathan Lemalu stars as Queequeg in San Francisco Opera's Moby-Dick Jonathan Lemalu discusses his role of Queequeg in Moby-Dick. He describes how each production has researched tattoo patterns for ...
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 ...
Adapted from Why Read Moby-Dick?, by Nathaniel Philbrick, to be published this month by viking; © 2011 by the author. Even though I hadn’t read a word of it, I ...
The 21st annual Moby-Dick Marathon takes place Friday through Sunday at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Volunteers will take turns reading passages from the iconic American novel — start to finish.