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Performance

VenueRoyal Opera House
Also: Linbury Studio, Ballet Studio, Clore Studio,Floral Hall
TownWest End
CountyGreater London
From12th May 2003
To30th May 2003
WhenMay 12, 15, 20, 23, 28, 30 at 19:00
PricesFrom £4.00. To £130.00.
Royal Opera House (V377)
Current/Future Listings
Listings Archive

Hamlet

Hamlet

Work:: Hamlet (S0740319444)

Hamlet is the only one who knows who has killed his father - the man about to marry his mother! When he alerts the murderer to the fact, he puts his own life in danger. But in a dangerous, nightmarish place where no-one can be trusted, how can he mentally and physically survive to avenge his father's horrific death?
Music Ambroise Thomas

Production:: (T02307782)

Sung in French with English surtitles. Running time: 2 hours 45 minutes. Production du Grand Theatre de Geneve - production new to the Royal Opera House. The opera was first heard at Covent Garden in 1869 and has been give 25 performances at Covent Garden. It was last heard in 1910. This will be the first production of Hamlet by The Royal Opera. The production will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 24 May.
Company Royal Opera
Director Patrice Caurier (original direction-Geneva 1996)
Director Moshe Leiser (original direction-Geneva 1996)
Design Christian Fenouillat
Costume Agostino Cavalca
Lighting Christophe Forey
Performer Simon Keenlyside (Hamlet)
Performer Natalie Dessay (Ophelie)
Performer Robert Lloyd Claudius)
Performer Yvonne Naef (Gertrude)
Performer Yann Beuron (Laertes)
Performer Markus Hollop (Le Spectre)
Performer Graeme Broadbent (Horatio)
Performer Darren Jeffery (Gravedigger)
Performer Matthew Beale (Gravedigger)
Performer Edgaras Montividas (Marcellus)
Conductor Louis Langree

Listing:: L1201768887




Production details

Sung in French with English surtitles. Running time: 2 hours 45 minutes. Production du Grand Theatre de Geneve - production new to the Royal Opera House. The opera was first heard at Covent Garden in 1869 and has been give 25 performances at Covent Garden. It was last heard in 1910. This will be the first production of Hamlet by The Royal Opera. The production will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 24 May.

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