Glyndebourne: Hamlet
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Released June 29, 2018
Overview
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?
Cast
Allan Clayton
as
Hamlet
Barbara Hannigan
as
Ophelia
Rodney Gilfry
as
Claudius
Sarah Connolly
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Gertrude
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David Butt Philip
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Laertes
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Kim Begley
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Polonius
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Jacques Imbrailo
as
Horatio
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James Newby
as
Marcellus
John Tomlinson
as
Ghost/Gravedigger
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Rupert Enticknap
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Rosencrantz
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Christopher Lowrey
as
Guildenstern
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Vladimir Jurowski
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Self/Conductor
Crew
William Shakespeare
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Book
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François Roussillon
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Director
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Matthew Jocelyn
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Writer
Madjid Hakimi
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Director of Photography
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Alice Babidge
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Costume Design
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Neil Armfield
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Stage Director
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Denni Sayers
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Choreographer
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Ralph Myers
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Production Design
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Brett Dean
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Music