Glyndebourne: Hamlet (2018)
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?
Director: François Roussillon
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Allan Clayton as Hamlet |
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Barbara Hannigan as Ophelia |
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Rodney Gilfry as Claudius |
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Sarah Connolly as Gertrude |
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David Butt Philip as Laertes |
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Kim Begley as Polonius |
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Jacques Imbrailo as Horatio |
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James Newby as Marcellus |
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John Tomlinson as Ghost/Gravedigger |
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Rupert Enticknap as Rosencrantz |
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Christopher Lowrey as Guildenstern |
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Vladimir Jurowski as Self/Conductor |
| Directing | François Roussillon | Director |
| Camera | Madjid Hakimi | Director of Photography |
| Writing | William Shakespeare | Book |
| Costume & Make-Up | Alice Babidge | Costume Design |
| Crew | Denni Sayers | Choreographer |
| Art | Ralph Myers | Production Design |
| Directing | Neil Armfield | Stage Director |
| Sound | Brett Dean | Music |
