Shakespeare, being Shakespeare, defies most attempts at operatic adaptation. Anyone coming at the Bard with music paper in hand had better be Verdi, and even he backed down at the prospect of turning ...

Ambroise Thomas’ “Hamlet” was last performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 1897, and it’s easy to see why more than a century passed before its revival. Even with two outstanding singing actors in the ...

Whether Ambroise Thomas' "Hamlet" is to be or not to be a bigger player in the opera world should no longer be a question. In many ways, it's the great French grand opera that Gounod and even Verdi ...

For years it seemed that French composer Emmanuel Chabrier would have the last word on his colleague Ambroise Thomas. "There are two kinds of music, the good and the bad," said the waggish Chabrier.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This spring season, the multi-award winning Purchase Opera will present a ...

After a short break, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera returns with Ambroise Thomas' "Hamlet." The performance begins at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema in Cape Girardeau. Thomas ...

Starting in March at the Opéra Bastille, Ambroise Thomas’s version of the Shakespearean tragedy will be revived at the Paris Opera for the first time since 1938. By Rebecca Schmid Ambroise Thomas’s ...

Murder most foul can happen anywhere, anytime. Thaddeus Strassberger proves this point in his staging of Ambroise Thomas’s “Hamlet” for Washington National Opera. The award-winning director and ...

Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is a great story and a great play. It would seem to be perfect for an opera setting. Only one was done, and that was by the French composer Ambroise Thomas, who also wrote ...

West Edge Opera currently presents three performances, August 5, 13, and 19, of French composer Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet at their new venue at Pacific Pipe, an abandoned steel factory in West Oakland.