If you haven’t seen the Washington National Opera’s production of “Hamlet” at the Kennedy Center yet, you might not understand how anyone could dream of setting Ambroise Thomas’ 1868 opera in “Denmark ...

After a short break, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera returns with Ambroise Thomas' "Hamlet." The performance begins at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema in Cape Girardeau. Thomas ...

Starting in March at the Opéra Bastille, Ambroise Thomas’s version of the Shakespearean tragedy will be revived at the Paris Opera for the first time since 1938. By Rebecca Schmid Ambroise Thomas’s ...

The roles of Hamlet and Ophelia are superbly enacted and sung by Wes Mason and Talise Travigne. Fort Worth Opera FORT WORTH — To experience the Fort Worth Opera Festival's Hamlet Saturday night was to ...

Just as Hollywood producers often change familiar books and plays to suit what they feel their audiences desire, so did French composer Ambroise Thomas alter Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” to adhere to ...

Spoiler alert: People die in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A lot of them — including the Danish prince of the title, his wife, Ophelia, and various enemies and friends ...

Shakespeare, being Shakespeare, defies most attempts at operatic adaptation. Anyone coming at the Bard with music paper in hand had better be Verdi, and even he backed down at the prospect of turning ...

For years it seemed that French composer Emmanuel Chabrier would have the last word on his colleague Ambroise Thomas. "There are two kinds of music, the good and the bad," said the waggish Chabrier.

Peasants begged from opera-goers in the lobby of Bass Performance Hall and were dragged away by officers during the dress rehearsal of Hamlet. Paul Moseley Fort Worth Star-Telegram FORT WORTH ...

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