LIVE: March 27, 2010 at 1 pm
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ENCORE: March 28, 2010 at 1 pm
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Followed by a Gala French Feast at LaCasbah - Call the CPS Box Office for a Reservation!
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The works of Shakespeare have inspired more operatic adaptations than any other writer’s. Simon Keenlyside and Marlis Petersen bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills to two of the Bard’s most unforgettable characters in this new production of Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet. For the role of Ophelia, the French composer created an extended mad scene that is among the greatest in opera.

Due to illness, Natalie Dessay will not be performing in Hamlet for the first 6 performances, which includes the Live in HD broadcast. In her place will be singing the German soprano Marlis Petersen.
3 hours, 45 minutes; 2 intermissions