Hamlet is an opéra in five acts by the French composer Ambroise Thomas, with the libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier based on Shakespeare's Hamlet and a French adaptation of the play by Alexandre Dumas and Paul Meurice. The work was premiered at the Paris Opéra on 9 March 1868. Among the noted singers in the original cast were Jean-Baptiste Faure as Hamlet and Christine Nilsson as Ophelia. The opera was staged at the Royal Italian Opera, C...
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Hamlet is an opéra in five acts by the French composer Ambroise Thomas, with the libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier based on Shakespeare's Hamlet and a French adaptation of the play by Alexandre Dumas and Paul Meurice. The work was premiered at the Paris Opéra on 9 March 1868. Among the noted singers in the original cast were Jean-Baptiste Faure as Hamlet and Christine Nilsson as Ophelia. The opera was staged at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden (later the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden) in 1870. Hamlet was Thomas's greatest success, along with Mignon, and was further staged in Leipzig, Budapest, Brussels, Prague, New York City, Saint Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna within five years of the Paris premiere.
The opera fell into neglect after Thomas' death and World War I. However, since 1980, interest in the opera has increased, and the work has enjoyed a notable number of revivals, including Vienna (1992-1994, 1996), Opera North (1995), Geneva (1996), San Francisco Opera ...
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