To be or not to be: Hamlet returns to the Buxton Festival

Yewon Han (Ophélie) and Gregory Feldmann (Hamlet)

Yewon Han (Ophélie)

Alastair Miles (Claudius), Allison Cook (Gertrude) and the Buxton Festival Chorus

Allison Cook (Gertrude) and Gregory Feldmann (Hamlet)

Gregory Feldmann (Hamlet)

Von Mark Pullinger, 17 Juli 2025

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“dark, psychological staging... stylish without being cluttered”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Buxton Opera House, Buxton, am 16 Juli 2025

Thomas, Hamlet

Adrian Kelly, Musikalische Leitung

Jack Furness, Regie

Sami Fendall, Bühnenbild, Kostüme

Jake Wiltshire, Licht

Orchestra of Opera North

Buxton Festival Chorus

Gregory Feldmann, Hamlet

Yewon Han, Ophelia

Alastair Miles, Claudius

Allison Cook, Gertrud

Joshua Baxter, Laërtes

Richard Woodall, Polonius

Tamsanqa Tylor Lamani, Marcellus

Dan D'Souza, Horatio

Per Bach Nissen, Geist

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

To be or not to be: Hamlet returns to the Buxton International Festival