The New Yorker

Malcolm X and Hamlet Seize the Opera Stage

In 1986, the novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany interviewed the composer Anthony Davis, whose opera “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X” had just received a triumphant première at New York City ...
Observer

Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Hamlet’ Takes Big Swings but Mostly Misses

The Met imported Neil Armfield’s unsparing production from England’s Glyndebourne Festival where the Australian composer’s second opera premiered in 2017. Throughout their adaptation, Dean and Jocelyn ...
The Guardian

To be or not to be: the question is, where are the operatic Hamlets?

Brett Dean’s Hamlet premieres at Glyndebourne this week. Will he succeed where hundreds of other composers have failed and give Shakespeare’s masterpiece the opera it deserves? There have been 40 ...
Sydney Morning Herald

Aussie composer Brett Dean's opera Hamlet centrepiece of 2018 Adelaide Festival

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The creative mind of Neil Armfield knows few bounds, but the director expressed surprise with one ...
Southeast Missourian

Opera Bites: See rarely performed 'Hamlet' in HD

After a short break, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera returns with Ambroise Thomas' "Hamlet." The performance begins at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema in Cape Girardeau. Thomas ...