Brett Dean Hamlet opera to libretto by Matthew Jocelyn. Directed 2018 by Neil Armfield at Glyndebourne (in a World Premiere). Stars Allan Clayton (Hamlet), Barbara Hannigan (Ophelia), Sarah Connolly (Gertrude), Rod Gilfry (Claudius), Kim Begley (Polonius), John Tomlinson (Ghost of Old Hamlet), David Butt Philip (Laertes), Jacques Imbrailo (Horatio), Rupert Enticknap (Rosencrantz), and Christopher Lowrey (Guildenstern). Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra (Leader Vesselin Gellev) and The Glyndebourne Chorus (Chorus Master Jeremy Bines). Set design by Ralph Myers; costume design by Alice Babidge; movement direction by Denni Sayers; lighting design by John Clark; fight direction by Nicholas Hall; produced by George Bruell. Directed for TV by François Roussillon. Sung in English. Released 2018, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA
Andrew Mellor, writing in the 2018 Awards Edition of Gramophone (pages 114-115) gives the libretto, the music, and the production here about the most enthusiastic and unqualified approval possible without being accused of bribery. Later Gramophone gave this title its 2019 annual award as the best recording of contemporary music for the year. Joe Cadagin says in the January 2019 Opera News, pages 50-51, that this work is “fated to rank among the great new operas of the twenty-first century.” With these kind of reports, this is a “must buy.”
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