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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.

Table of 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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Contributors:

Rae, Brenda , performer

Connolly, Sarah , performer

Clayton, Allan , performer

Butt Philip, David, 1980- , performer

Burden, William, 1964- , performer

Imbrailo, Jacques , performer

Gilfry, Rodney , performer

Relyea, John , performer

Carter, Nicholas , conductor

Dean, Brett

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Languages:

English
French
German
Spanish
Portuguese
Swedish

Language Notes:

Sung in English; English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese or Swedish subtitles

Included Works:

Hamlet [by Dean, B.]

Subjects:

Operas

Genres:

Operas

Internet videos

Online media

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.

General Notes:

Streaming media.
Wide screen.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.
Recorded live 2022 the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
Description based on: Vendor-supplied metadata.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 53 min., 12 sec.)) : sound, color

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

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Universal Product Code: 810004202863

OCLC Numbers:

1379067442