Hamlet
Watch Brett Dean's Hamlet online for free from Sunday 16 August
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About the opera
Tormented by his father’s death, Hamlet plots revenge. But it’s a long way from anger to murder, and soon the Prince finds himself losing his grip on sanity, strength, love and even life itself.
Rapturously received at its 2017 premiere, Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn’s Hamlet is an award-winning reimagining of Shakespeare’s most famous play. Placing his audience at the heart of the drama, immersing them in sound and even physical sensation, Dean invites us all into Hamlet’s consciousness, to inhabit the mind of one of the cleverest, wittiest, most troubled heroes in all literature.
Transforming the Glyndebourne auditorium into a ‘theatre of sound’, Dean’s richly lyrical score finds the music of Shakespeare’s language, amplifying it to create an evocative, disturbing soundscape. This is Hamlet, but not as you’ve ever heard it before.
Neil Armfield directs an all-star cast led by Allan Clayton and Barbara Hannigan. Vladimir Jurowski conducts.
Hamlet was captured live at Festival 2017. It is available on DVD from our shop.
Preview videos
Creative team
Conductor
Vladimir Jurowski
Director
Neil Armfield
Set Designer
Ralph Myers
Costume Designer
Alice Babidge
Movement Director
Denni Sayers
Lighting Designer
Jon Clark
Fight Director
Nicholas Hall
Dramaturg
Cori Ellison
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Chorus Master
Jeremy Bines
Music by kind permission of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd

Cast
Hamlet
Allan Clayton
Ophelia
Barbara Hannigan
Gertrude
Sarah Connolly
Claudius
Rod Gilfry
Polonius
Kim Begley
Ghost of Old Hamlet/Gravedigger/Player 1
John Tomlinson
Laertes
David Butt Philip
Horatio
Jacques Imbrailo
Rosencrantz
Rupert Enticknap
Guildenstern
Christopher Lowrey
Marcellus/Player 4
James Newby
Player 2
John Findon
Player 3
Anthony Osborne
Classical Accordionist
James Crabb
Photos: Richard Hubert Smith