Hamlet, Opera Bastille, Paris: 8 March-9 April 2023

Absent from France's foremost opera stage since 1938, Ambroise Thomas' masterpiece makes its grand return to the Paris Opera. Freely adapted from Shakespeare's play, Hamlet is part of the great tradition of romantic grand opera inherited from Meyerbeer, alternating spectacular and intimate scenes, including a ballet in the fourth act, and magnificent vocal bravura passages in a style in turn virtuoso and declamatory. Thomas Hengelbrock directs a brilliant cast led by Ludovic Tézier in a production by Krzysztof Warlikowski, a great explorer of the depths of the human psyche.

• Creative team

  Hamlet

  opera in five acts (1868)

  After William Shakespeare

  • Music:

    Ambroise Thomas - (1811 - 1896)

  • Libretto:

    Michel Carré

    Jules Barbier

  • Conductor:

    Thomas Hengelbrock

  • Chorus master:

    Ching-Lien Wu

  • Director:

    Krzysztof Warlikowski

  • Set design and Costume design:

    Małgorzata Szczęśniak

  • Lighting design:

    Felice Ross

  • Video:

    Denis Guéguin

  • Choreography:

    Claude Bardouil

  • Dramaturgy:

    Christian Longchamp

  Orchestre et Chœurs de l’Opéra national de Paris

• Cast

  • Hamlet:

    • Ludovic Tézier

  • Claudius:

    • Jean Teitgen

  • Laërte:

    • Julien Behr

  • Spectre du roi défunt:

    • Clive Bayley

  • Horatio:

    • Frédéric Caton

  • Marcellus:

    • Julien Henric

  • Gertrude:

    • Eve-Maud Hubeaux

  • Ophélie:

    • Lisette Oropesa

      11 > 30 March

    • Brenda Rae

      2 > 9 April.