Faccio: Hamlet

Faccio: Hamlet — Plot

Hamlet, an opera by Verdi contemporaries Franco Faccio and Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's tragedy, had a "triumphal rebirth" (Deutschlandfunk Kultur) at the Bregenz Festival, where the opera was also recorded for the first time ever. Faccio, who conducted the first performance of Verdi's Aida in Italy and the world premiere of Otello, and Boito, Verdi's librettist of Otello and Falstaff, anticipated the musical language of later Italian verismo composers so their opera combines lovely musical interludes with superb vocal writing. Olivier Tambosi's "excellent staging served it well, with a clear focus on the high points (The Telegraph)". "In the intermission and at the end there was vociferous enthusiasm of the audience for the late first encounter with this music" (Neue Musikzertung).

• Runtime
• 145 min
• Director
• Olivier Tambosi

Faccio: Hamlet — Cast

Pavel Cernoch Amleto Claudio Sgura Claudio

E

Eduard Tsanga Polonio

S

Sebastien Soules Orazio Paul Schweinester Laerte

I

Iulia Maria Dan Ofelia

D

Dshamilja Kaiser Gertrude

G

Gianluca Buratto The Ghost/A Preist