Shakespeare, being Shakespeare, defies most attempts at operatic adaptation. Anyone coming at the Bard with music paper in hand had better be Verdi, and even he backed down at the prospect of turning ...

Just as Hollywood producers often change familiar books and plays to suit what they feel their audiences desire, so did French composer Ambroise Thomas alter Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” to adhere to ...

Washington National Opera (WNO), under the leadership of General Director Plácido Domingo, presents the company premiere of Ambroise Thomas' rarely performed masterpiece Hamlet in seven performances, ...

Whether Ambroise Thomas' "Hamlet" is to be or not to be a bigger player in the opera world should no longer be a question. In many ways, it's the great French grand opera that Gounod and even Verdi ...

French composer Ambroise Thomas’s 1868 five-act “Hamlet” opera diverges from Shakespeare in several ways, among them subtractions of characters, additions of scenes and an ending in which Hamlet is ...

NEW YORK - Frailty, thy name is…prima donna? A few weeks after local audiences saw mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves withdraw from Opera New Jersey’s production of “Carmen,” only to find substitute Kirsten ...

Ambroise Thomas’ “Hamlet” was last performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 1897, and it’s easy to see why more than a century passed before its revival. Even with two outstanding singing actors in the ...

Whether you're on the trolleybus on the way to the performance, having a cigarette in front of the Salzburg Festival Theatre or queuing in the toilet - with the opera quick check you'll be perfectly ...

West Edge Opera currently presents three performances, August 5, 13, and 19, of French composer Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet at their new venue at Pacific Pipe, an abandoned steel factory in West Oakland.

The roles of Hamlet and Ophelia are superbly enacted and sung by Wes Mason and Talise Travigne. Fort Worth Opera FORT WORTH — To experience the Fort Worth Opera Festival's Hamlet Saturday night was to ...