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 ...

NEW YORK, January 9, 2017 — Chinese opera star Zhang Jun performs his virtuosic re-imagining of Shakespeare's Hamlet in a one-man contemporary performance titled I, Hamlet. (1 hr., 14 min.) Zhang Jun, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rupert Christiansen was the opera critic and arts features writer for The Telegraph between 1995 and 2020. He is the author of several books of cultural history including Romantic Affinities, Paris ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by My Favorite Page Brett Dean, whose adaptation of the classic play is at the Metropolitan Opera, discusses the four notes that embody Hamlet’s dilemma.

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 ...

WILMINGTON, Del. — Franco Faccio's opera "Amleto," based on Shakespeare's "Hamlet," languished for more than 130 years, from its fiasco at the Italian theater La Scala in 1871 to the early 2000s, when ...