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Hamlet
Title
Hamlet / Dean.
Publication
[New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [2022]
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 53 min., 12 sec.)) : sound, color
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Sung in English; English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese or Swedish subtitles
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Composers throughout history have looked to the works of Shakespeare for inspiration--from 19th-century Romantics like Bellini, Verdi, and Gounod to the modern masters Britten, Barber, Bernstein, and Thomas Adès. This musical tradition continued with the world premiere of Brett Dean's Hamlet at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2017. And during the 2021-22 season, the shattering adaptation of the Bard's immortal tragedy made its way stateside when it took the Met stage in a powerful production by Neil Armfield. In this performance, recorded as part of the company's Live in HD series, tenor Allan Clayton, who originated the title role in the work's premiere, reprises his tour-de-force portrayal, headlining a cast that also features soprano Brenda Rae as Ophelia, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly as Gertrude, tenor David Butt Philip as Laertes, baritone Rod Gilfry as Claudius, and bass-baritone John Relyea as the Ghost of King Hamlet. Maestro Nicholas Carter takes the podium to conduct Dean's explosive score.
Variant and related titles
Met opera on demand OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 20, 2024
Performers
Brenda Rae, Sarah Connolly, Allan Clayton, David Butt Philip, William Burden, Jacques Imbrailo, Rod Gilfry, John Relyea ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Nicholas Carter, conductor.
Contents
Opening credits
Introduction by Christine Goerke
Scene 1: The funeral I: Dust, noble dust, quintessence of dust
Scene 2: The wedding: Though yet of our dear brother's death the memory be green
The head is not more native to the heart than is the throne of Denmark
Farewell, sister, and remember well what I have said to you
That it should come to this
Scene 3: The visitation: Angels, Angels, Angels and ministers of grace
Mark me
I will
O, Hamlet, bear it not
Scene 4: The conspiracy theory: Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
How now, Ophelia? Green Girl
The very ecstasy of love
; .or not to be
Get thee to a nunnery
Scene 5: The players: My honour'd lord
I did enact Julius Ceasar in the university
Aliquid in civitate Daniae corroptum est
Scene 6: The play's the thing: Pastoral. Comical. Historical, tragical
Worm-wood
Scene 7: The confession: O ; . Heavy burden
Scene 8: Murder and incest: As you said, 'tis meet that some more audience should over hear
Save me, save me
Scene 9: Madness and mad plan: Laertes, Laertes shall be king
Never, never, never, never doubt I love ; .
Tomorrow is St. Valentine's day
Didst thou persuade revenge
There is a willow, a willow, grows a skant the brook
Scene 10: The funeral II: In youth when I did love
Ah
But soft a while...Here comes the King
Scene 11: The wager: Sweet lord
Scene 12: Death: Come, Hamlet, come and take this hand from me
O! Let the doors be locked. O villainy!
O good Horatio, if thou didst ever hold me in thy heart
Backstage at the Met with host Christine Goerke. Brett Dean, Matthew Jocelyn and Neil Armfield discuss Hamlet ; Interview with Brenda Rae ; Interview with Allan Clayton ; Interview with Sarah Connolly and Rod Gilfry ; Nicholas Carter discusses Hamlet.
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Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), performer.
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