Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is a great story and a great play. It would seem to be perfect for an opera setting. Only one was done, and that was by the French composer Ambroise Thomas, who also wrote ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Anyone who has done more than a cursory ...

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.

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 ...

Here I was about to attend a performance of the composer’s “Hamlet,” an opera that only rarely gets attention in the world today, and I was suddenly enjoying a little taste of his “Mignon,” which has ...

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 ...

West Edge Opera currently presents three performances, August 5, 13, and 19, of French composer Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet at their new venue at Pacific Pipe, an abandoned steel factory in West Oakland.