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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you haven’t seen the Washington National Opera’s production of “Hamlet” at the Kennedy Center yet, you might not understand how anyone could dream of setting Ambroise Thomas’ 1868 opera in “Denmark ...

Covent Garden has not mounted a production of Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet for 93 years. In many ways, it is easy to see why. You don’t have to be a Shakespeare purist to find something intrinsically ...

Peasants begged from opera-goers in the lobby of Bass Performance Hall and were dragged away by officers during the dress rehearsal of Hamlet. Paul Moseley Fort Worth Star-Telegram FORT WORTH ...

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 ...

For years it seemed that French composer Emmanuel Chabrier would have the last word on his colleague Ambroise Thomas. "There are two kinds of music, the good and the bad," said the waggish Chabrier.

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.

Starting in March at the Opéra Bastille, Ambroise Thomas’s version of the Shakespearean tragedy will be revived at the Paris Opera for the first time since 1938. By Rebecca Schmid Ambroise Thomas’s ...