Hamlet (Opera)

Review: ‘Hamlet’ Boldly Engulfs the Metropolitan Opera

An opera composer would need the epic gifts and epic gall of a Richard Wagner to consider an adaptation of “Hamlet” and think: “Yup, I’ve got this.” “My initial response,” Brett Dean has ventured more modestly, “was to say no, that I couldn’t possibly tackle something that big.” But about 10 years ago, Dean put […]