The Met imported Neil Armfield’s unsparing production from England’s Glyndebourne Festival where the Australian composer’s second opera premiered in 2017. Throughout their adaptation, Dean and Jocelyn ...
I was ready to love Brett Dean’s “Hamlet,” which had its North American premiere on Friday at the Metropolitan Opera. The video of the show from its 2017 Glyndebourne debut was gripping, a vertiginous ...
NEW YORK, January 9, 2017 — Chinese opera star Zhang Jun performs his virtuosic re-imagining of Shakespeare's Hamlet in a one-man contemporary performance titled I, Hamlet. (1 hr., 14 min.) Zhang Jun, ...
A Glyndebourne Festival Opera Production, it had its premiere last year in Britain and is now being restaged in Australia for the first time. Whatever doubts one might have about the wisdom of turning ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by My Favorite Page Brett Dean, whose adaptation of the classic play is at the Metropolitan Opera, discusses the four notes that embody Hamlet’s dilemma.
Covent Garden has not mounted a production of Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet for 93 years. In many ways, it is easy to see why. You don’t have to be a Shakespeare purist to find something intrinsically ...