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Neil Armfield directs Brett Dean’s Hamlet in New York (**)

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Jun 07, 2022
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Rodney Gilfry (Claudius) and Allan Clayton (Hamlet) © Karen Almond / Met Opera

Author: Johan Uytterschaut

Following the world premiere of Brett Dean’s Hamlet in Glyndebourne in 2017, The Guardian wrote: “New opera doesn’t often get to sound this good”. Allow me to find this a problematic statement. In a sense even gratuitous. Even if it could be true. Let…

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