On May 13, the Metropolitan Opera will present the company premiere of Australian composer Brett Dean's Hamlet, a bold adaptation of Shakespeare's timeless drama, with six additional performances ...

I was ready to love Brett Dean’s “Hamlet,” which had its North American premiere on Friday at the Metropolitan Opera. The video of the show from its 2017 Glyndebourne debut was gripping, a vertiginous ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by My Favorite Page Brett Dean, whose adaptation of the classic play is at the Metropolitan Opera, discusses the four notes that embody Hamlet’s dilemma.

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Experience this contemporary opera based on Shakespeare’s masterpiece directed by Neil Armfield and composed by Brett Dean. Starring Allan Clayton in the title role, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly as ...

Neil Armfield’s production of the Brett Dean opera Hamlet is a confronting three hours in the theatre, but then so is Shakespeare’s play. The second act is devastating in its emotional impact.

The viola player Brett Dean took a risk that paid off when he left the orchestra to become a full-time composer. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown The concert world, seemingly back to normal, saw Ukrainian ...