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Brett Dean's multi-award-winning opera received its world premiere at Glyndebourne Festival 2017. The world premiere recording of Brett Deans new opera based on Shakespeares best-known tragedy: To be, or not to be. This is Hamlets dilemma, and the essence of Shakespeares most famous and arguably greatest work, given new life in operatic form in this original Glyndebourne commission. Thoughts of murder and revenge drive Hamlet when he learns that it was his uncle Claudius who killed his father, the King of Denmark, then seized his fathers crown and wife. But Hamlets vengeance vies with the question: is suicide a morally valid deed in an unbearably painful world?
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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 2018-06-29
- video_camera_front Companies Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Francois Roussillon Et Associés, Medici Entertainment, CNC, BBC
- timer Runtime: 163 Mins
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Allan Clayton
Hamlet

Barbara Hannigan
Ophelia

Rodney Gilfry
Claudius

Sarah Connolly
Gertrude

David Butt Philip
Laertes

Kim Begley
Polonius

Jacques Imbrailo
Horatio

James Newby
Marcellus

John Tomlinson
Ghost/Gravedigger

Rupert Enticknap
Rosencrantz

Christopher Lowrey
Guildenstern

Vladimir Jurowski
Self/Conductor
groups Crew

François Roussillon
Director

Matthew Jocelyn
Writer

William Shakespeare
Book

Madjid Hakimi
Director of Photography

Ralph Myers
Production Design

Alice Babidge
Costume Design

Brett Dean
Music

Neil Armfield
Stage Director

Denni Sayers
Choreographer
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