The Met Live in HD
Hamlet

The works of Shakespeare have inspired more operatic adaptations than any other writer’s. Simon Keenlyside and Marlis Petersen bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills to two of the Bard’s most unforgettable characters in this new production of Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet. For the role of Ophelia, the French composer created an extended mad scene that is among the greatest in opera.

Composer Ambroise Thomas
Libretto by Michel Carre and Jules Barbier
Conductor Louis Langrée
Production Patrice Caurier* and Moshe Leiser*
Set Designer Christian Fenouillat*
Costume Designer Agostino Cavalca*
Lighting Designer Christophe Forey*
Ophélie Marlis Petersen
Gertrude Jennifer Larmore
Laërte Toby Spence*
Hamlet Simon Keenlyside
Claudius James Morris

*Met debut

Production owned by the Grand Theatre of Geneva
Production underwritten by Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer J. Thomas, Jr.

This event is sponsored by Red Wing/Package Pavement.
The promotional sponsor is WMHT.

Our 2009/10 Met Opera: Live in HD broadcasts are made possible in large part though the generous support of the Jane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust, the Louis Greenspan Charitable Trust, the Dr. Edwin Ulrich Charitable Trust, the Benjamin R. Strong Opera Fund, and the Stephen and Julia Dunwell Fund of the Community Foundation of Dutchess County.