The Academy Award nominee and National Humanities Medal recipient discuss the long shadows of two literary giants.

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Most readily recognized as the fearsome villain Zero Wolf in Mel Gibson's bloody Mayan epic "Apocalypto," Raoul Trujillo is native to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and has Apache and Ute heritage. A former US ...

Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...

Though greatly whittled down from Melville’s gargantuan text (over 700 pages in some editions), the libretto preserves much of the language and style of the epic novel. Librettist Gene Scheer ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Great White Whale has been waiting in the wings of the Metropolitan Opera for years, and is still only ...

Brandon Jovanovich is Captain Ahab in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera The very concept seems impossible: taking Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick—not just one of the greatest ...

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