Hamlet (MetOpera)

The 2009-2010 MetOpera Live in HD is the Metropolitan Opera's third season of live performances, featuring nine transmissions with many of the world's greatest singers featured in brand new roles. James Levine, Music Director at the Met, says "This is a wonderful balance of repertory that includes four new works and a number of great operas that haven’t been performed for a long time". Read more at nzmetopera.com.

HAMLET – Ambroise Thomas (3 hours 45 minutes / 1 intermission)
The works of Shakespeare have inspired more operatic adaptations than any other writer’s. Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills to two of the Bard’s most unforgettable characters in this new production of Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet. For the role of Ophelia, the French composer created an extended mad scene that is among the greatest in opera.

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