Faccio: Hamlet

Pavel Cernoch (Amleto), Claudio Sgura (Claudio), Iulia Maria Dan (Ofelia), Eduard Tsanga (Polonio), Dshamilja Kaiser (Gertrude), Sebastien Soules (Orazio), Paul Schweinester (Laerte), Bartosz Urbanowicz (Marcello), Gianluca Buratto (The ghost/A priest)

Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker,...

Tambosi’s production in the Bregenz Festspielhaus is simple but effective. Černoch’s tortured Hamlet…acts and sings terrifically…while the Romanian soprano Iulia Maria Dan is an affecting Ophelia…Amleto... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2017 More…

Release Date: 11th Aug 2017
Catalogue No: 740704
Label: C Major

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Faccio: Hamlet

Bregenz Festival, July, 2016
Pavel Cernoch (Amleto), Claudio Sgura (Claudio), Iulia Maria Dan (Ofelia), Eduard Tsanga (Polonio), Dshamilja Kaiser (Gertrude), Sebastien Soules (Orazio), Paul Schweinester (Laerte), Bartosz Urbanowicz (Marcello), Gianluca Buratto (The ghost/A priest)
Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker
Paolo Carignani

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Staged by Olivier Tambosi

This production ‘offers all an Italian-opera-lover could possibly desire’ wrote the FAZ after the revival of this ‘forgotten gem’ at the Bregenz Festival. The festival continued its rediscovery series with ‘Amleto/Hamlet’, an opera by Verdi contemporaries Franco Faccio and Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. Premiered in 1865 in Genoa and restaged in 1871 at Milano’s La Scala, ‘Hamlet’ was only revived in 2014 concertante in the US before its ‘triumphal rebirth’ (Deutschlandradio Kultur) at the Bregenz Festival, where the opera was also recorded for the first time ever. Faccio, who conducted the first performance of Verdi’s Aida in Italy and the world premiere of Otello, and Boito, Verdi’s librettist of Otello and Falstaff, skillfully and effectively challenge the conventions of Italian opera, which they wanted to revitalize by infusing it with the spirit of Shakespeare’s drama. Anticipating the musical language of later Italian verismo composers, the opera combines lovely musical interludes with superb vocal writing. Heading a supreme cast, Pavel Černoch as Amleto delivers superbly, ‘using his colorful tenor skillfully to develop the transformation of the insecure youngling to the ice-cold avenger’ (NZZ) and ‘granting the work large scale’ (Abendzeitung). Under the baton of Paolo Carignani with the Vienna Symphoniker and Prague Philharmonic Choir ‘it carried terrific punch’ (The Telegraph). Olivier Tambosi’s ‘excellent staging served it well, with a clear focus on the high points’ (The Telegraph). ‘There is a lot of exciting music to discover in this opera…What an amazing richness in ideas! This opera is worth to be rediscovered.’ (SZ) ‘Faccio’s opera is the one that should be performed, and if plans are not already afoot to bring it to the land of Shakespeare, they certainly should be.’ (The Telegraph)

SOUND FORMAT: Blu-ray: PCM Stereo, DTS-HD MA 5.1

PICTURE: 16:9, HD

SUBTITLES: Italian (original language), German, English, French, Korean, Japanese

BOOKLET: English, German, French

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 145 mins

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Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, Paolo Carignani

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October 2017

Tambosi’s production in the Bregenz Festspielhaus is simple but effective. Černoch’s tortured Hamlet…acts and sings terrifically…while the Romanian soprano Iulia Maria Dan is an affecting Ophelia…Amleto is a very fine work indeed – superior to Thomas’s Hamlet – and this Bregenz production constitutes a major operatic rediscovery.

November 2017

Pavel Cernoch's stern performance as the moody Dane is the centrepiece of the show, the famous monolgues delivered with dignity even if more vocal power is ideally required.

August 2017

Cernoch is mesmerising in the title-role, particularly in the great confrontation-scenes with his mother and Ophelia.

Opera Now September 2017

Tambosi gives it a striking production, traditional-with a twist.

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