(Glyndebourne: Hamlet)

Content: 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?

Countries:

France,

Japan,

United Kingdom

Genres:

Drama,

Music

Runtime:

163 minutes

Year:

2018

Directors:

François Roussillon

Production companies:

Glyndebourne Festival Opera,

Francois Roussillon et Associés,

Medici Entertainment,

CNC,

BBC

Actors:

Hamlet

Ophelia

Claudius

Gertrude

Laertes

Crews:

Book

Director

Director of Photography

Costume Design

Stage Director