MOBY DICK; or, The Whale, 2022, dir. Wu Tsang, prod. Schauspielhaus Zürich (Design Pics Inc / Alamy Stock Footage, courtesy the Shed) “Call me Ishmael” — the narrator’s first utterance in Moby-Dick — ...
Wu Tsang has mined Herman Melville’s classic novel to create ambitious, provocative spectacles. “There are these passages where they are squeezing the whale blubber that are so perverse,” Wu Tsang ...
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 ...