Organization

Singer

Bass

James Morris

King Claudius

Mezzo-soprano

Jennifer Larmore

Queen Gertrude

Baritone

Simon Keenlyside

Hamlet

Jordan Shanahan

Horatio

Tenor

Toby Spence

Laertes

David Pittsinger

Ghost of the late King Hamlet

Matthew Plenk

Marcellus

Soprano

Natalie Dessay

Ophelia

Marlis Petersen

Maxim Mikhailov

Polonius

Richard Bernstein

First gravedigger

Mark Schowalter

Second gravedigger

Conductor

Louis Langrée

Stage director

Patrice Caurier

Moshe Leiser

Costume designer

Agostino Cavalca

Set designer

Christian Fenouillat

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

French

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

After over a century out of the Met’s repertoire, audiences were thrilled to discover just what a sensational evening in the theater Thomas’s Hamlet can be. Simon Keenlyside’s riveting performance as the tortured Prince of Denmark in Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser’s starkly brooding production had critics raving that Keenlyside’s superb singing, coupled with his deftly delineated three-dimensional Hamlet, was one of the greatest examples of operatic drama of our time. The cast includes Marlis Petersen as the long suffering Ophélie, who brilliantly shows why her mad scene is so justly famous, along with Jennifer Larmore and James Morris as Gertrude and Claudius.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble