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 ...

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

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The Metropolitan Opera is staging a production of Herman Melville’s masterpiece about a white whale, ‘Moby-Dick ...

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

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

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 Washington National Opera in 2014.

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

When Leonard Foglia was invited to direct an opera based on Herman Melville’s masterpiece about a white whale, his first ...