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    Categories: Music

Making An Opera Out Of “Hamlet” Is A Very Tricky Feat. How Did Brett Dean And Matthew Jocelyn Do It?

For a start, you have to cut more than three quarters of Shakespeare’s four-hour text.  And you have to find some way to make those all-too-famous lines — “the elephants in the room,” composer Dean calls them — compelling and singable. (They had an… Read entire story.

Source: MUSIC – ArtsJournal

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