Moby Dick

Regarded as one of the greatest of all American novels, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick comes to BAM in a new production created by the iconic avant-garde director Robert Wilson for Germany’s Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. This classic tale of obsession and vengeance becomes enigmatic and new in Wilson’s mix of tart dialogue with indie-rock riffs and soaring ballads by British singer-songwriter Anna Calvi.

Born in Waco, Texas, Robert Wilson (1941—2025) was among the world’s foremost theater and visual artists, renowned worldwide for his poetically deliberate use of time, space, and light. His longstanding relationship with BAM commenced with The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud (1970), and included visionary collaborations with such disparate artists as Philip Glass, David Byrne, Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan, Lou Reed, and Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon. He was last here to present Letter to a Man with Mikhail Baryshnikov during Next Wave 2016.

Anna Calvi is an award-winning English singer-songwriter, composer, and guitarist, who previously collaborated with Wilson on the opera The Sandman. Moby Dick is her BAM debut.