Brandon Jovanovich as Captain Ahab in Jake Heggie's "Moby-Dick." Met Opera/Karen Almond Oh, what a fascinating career: Brandon Jovanovich, operatic tenor from Billings, Montana, went from a cater ...

King Ahab’s realm was in Samaria, what is now known by most as the occupied West Bank. The monarch coveted some land that did not belong to him, a vineyard owned by a man named Naboth.