16th August

Concert will begin at 16:00 hours GMT

Rebroadcast: Dean's 'Hamlet' with Clayton, Connolly, Hannigan and Gilfry from Glyndebourne

Glyndebourne Festival. Dean's 'Hamlet' is an opera to a libretto by Matthew Jocelyn based on the play by Shakespeare. King Hamlet has died, mourned by his son, Prince Hamlet of Denmark. The King’s funeral is followed fast upon by the marriage of his widow Gertrude, to his brother, Claudius. Hamlet is deeply disturbed by his father’s untimely death and his mother’s ‘o’er hasty marriage’, a state aggravated by the appearance of King Hamlet’s ghost, informing Hamlet that he was in fact murdered by his brother, now husband to Gertrude and King of Denmark. Performers.

Allan Clayton: Hamlet.
Sarah Connolly: Gertrude.
Barbara Hannigan: Ophelia.
Rod Gilfry: Claudius.
Kim Begley: Polonius.
John Tomlinson: Ghost of Old Hamlet.
Jacques Imbrailo: Horatio.
David Butt Philip: Laertes.
Rupert Enticknap: Rosencrantz.
Christopher Lowrey: Guildenstern.

The Glyndebourne Chorus. London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.

Recorded 6 July 2017.

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