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

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

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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.

The Metropolitan Opera is staging a production of Herman Melville's masterpiece about a white whale, ‘Moby-Dick.’ The libretto was written by Gene Scheer, who had to whittle down the novel ...

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

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His repeated catchphrase of "I would prefer not to" might irk his coworkers, but anyone who's worked a dead-end job knows the ...

Multiple behaviors were observed that indicate narwhal tusks — like Swiss Army knives — serve as multi-purpose tools. While ...

Aside from guitarist Brent Hinds, everyone in Mastodon was on hand alongside Heggie and composers Tamar-kali and David T. Little. And now, that discussion is available to watch online. It’s a deep ...

Conservationist are hoping to raise £80,000 to restore the huge skeleton of a 200-year-old whale which is mentioned in the ...