Hamlet

Synopsis: Live broadcast of Ambroise Thomas’s opera presented by Margaret Juntwait from the Metropolitan Opera, New York. With Simon Keenlyside as Hamlet and Marlis Petersen as last minute stand-in for Ophelie. Louis Langree conducts The New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra.
Series: Live from the Met
Language: French (Standard)
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 27 Mar 2010 at 17:00 (Channel: BBC Radio 3)
Duration: 240 (including interval)

Notes: Sung in French.
Librettists: Michel Carre and Jules Barbier
General: The opera premiered in Paris in 1868 and is based on a French adaptation of Shakespeare’s play by Alexandre Dumas and Paul Meurice.
History: Also transmitted live in high-definition video via satellite to select movie theatres around the world at 1 p.m. EDT. Also broadcast live on Sirius Metropolitan Opera Radio.
Reviews: Source: Radio Times, Metropolitan Opera programme information (http://www.metopera.org).
Review: Anthony Tommasini, ‘This Prince: What a Piece of Work’, New York Times, 17 March 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/arts/music/18hamlet.html