"Captain Ahab" vividly imagines the formative years of Captain Ahab. Ahab’s gruff woodsman father (Jean-Francois Stevenin) narrates the first chapter, starting from his wife’s death in ...

Is it possible? Could Ahab — the peg-legged ship's captain who leads that ill-fated quest for the great white whale in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick — have been misunderstood. To most ...

Crooked and bent over a carnal thirst for revenge, Captain Ahab leads the crew of the Pequod to their deaths to kill the infamous whale. Tousled at sea while bumbling around the waves completely ...

That month he took a steamer to Nantucket for his first visit to the Massachusetts island, home port of his novel’s mythic protagonist, Captain Ahab, and his ship, the Pequod. Like a tourist ...

When Captain Ahab set sail, he was looking for revenge. But the crew of the Pequod were after something less personal and more profitable: sperm whales. And thanks to an 18th-century form of ...

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 ...