Event listing: Hamlet | Theater an der Wien | Sat 28 Apr 2012 at 19:30

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Theater an der WienLinke Wienzeile 6, Vienna, 1060, Austria

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Performers

MusikTheater an der Wien
Marc Minkowski	Conductor
Olivier Py	Director
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Stéphane Degout	Baritone	Hamlet
Christine Schäfer	Soprano	Ophélie
Phillip Ens	Bass	Claudius
Stella Grigorian	Mezzo-soprano	Gertrude
Pavel Kudinov	Bass	Polonius
Frédéric Antoun	Tenor	Laërte
Jérôme Varnier	Bass	Ghost
Martijn Cornet	Bass	Horatio
Julien Behr	Bass	Marcellus

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Olivier Py’s uncertain Hamlet

Zwölftöner, 28th April

Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet has riled and infuriated ever since its 1868 première, though for many it is merely an object of derision: one 1869 correspondent to the satirical magazine Punch admits not having seen the work but nevertheless disparages it as ‘Omelette’, a musical ‘burlesque’, and pillories Thomas’s fondness for drinking songs with the lines ‘To drink or not to drink? That is now the que

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