Hamlet [konzertant] - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Hamlet [konzertant]

Opera in five acts
Libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier
after the French adaptation of Alexandre Dumas the Elder
and Paul Meurice after the tragedy "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare
World premiere of the French first version on March 9, 1868 in the
Salle de la rue Le Peletier of the Paris Opéra
Concert premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on June 24, 2019

In French with German and English surtitles

about 3 hours 45 minutes / one break

William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is not only his perhaps most philosophical and multi-layered tragedy, the play is also known as a drama in which after a spectacular finale all the protagonists are dead on stage. That "Hamlet" can be successfully adapted for the opera stage with "Happy End" and without the great monologue of the Danish prince with the famous "To be or not to be" has been proven by Ambroise Thomas together with the two librettists Michel Carré and Jules Barbier. Her HAMLET is still the most successful adaptation of the material and at the same time one of the most important French operas of the 1860s. Similar to the masterpieces of Charles Gounod, it emerges in a phase of change in which a new genre, the "Drame lyrique" develops from a synthesis of elements of the "state-bearing" Grand Opéra with those of the lighter Opéra Comique: through-composed, with a complex musical language but with a more intimate, lyrical tone and a dramaturgy more focused on the individual fates of the characters. And so Thomas' HAMLET is both: intoxicating music drama, but also multi-faceted poetry in the tracing of the finest emotions in the musical design of the main parts.

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