Glyndebourne: Hamlet
Brett Dean's multi-award-winning opera received its world premiere at Glyndebourne Festival 2017. The world premiere recording of Brett Deans new opera based on Shakespeares best-known tragedy: To be, or not to be. This is Hamlets dilemma, and the essence of Shakespeares most famous and arguably greatest work, given new life in operatic form in this original Glyndebourne commission. Thoughts of murder and revenge drive Hamlet when he learns that it was his uncle Claudius who killed his father, the King of Denmark, then seized his fathers crown and wife. But Hamlets vengeance vies with the question: is suicide a morally valid deed in an unbearably painful world?
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Allan Clayton
Hamlet
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Barbara Hannigan
Ophelia
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Rodney Gilfry
Claudius
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Sarah Connolly
Gertrude
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David Butt Philip
Laertes
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Kim Begley
Polonius
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Jacques Imbrailo
Horatio
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James Newby
Marcellus
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John Tomlinson
Ghost/Gravedigger
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Rupert Enticknap
Rosencrantz
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John Blow's Venus & Adonis / Henry Purcell's Dido & Aeneas
Christopher Lowrey
Guildenstern
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Vladimir Jurowski
Self/Conductor
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François Roussillon Director · William Shakespeare Author Madjid Hakimi Cinematographer
First release June 29, 2018 · Produced in France, Japan, United Kingdom · Production Francois Roussillon et Associés, Medici Entertainment
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Glyndebourne Festival Opera
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Francois Roussillon et Associés
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Medici Entertainment
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CNC
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BBC
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France · Japan · United Kingdom
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United Kingdom · June 29, 2018
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