OPERA

Brett Dean: Hamlet

THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2022
7:30 PM

Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$30-$335
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What Late Romanticism was good for was dramatic expression. So I guess it stands to reason that what a composer in the High Modern idiom that is Late Romanticism’s offspring should be writing is opera. Brett Dean’s Hamlet isn’t just a hit, but a smash hit (a palpable hit, as one is almost required to say). Many reviews of its world premiere at Glyndebourne a few years ago complained of its coldness — but it sure doesn’t seem that way at the Met. I’ve rarely been so gripped by an opera performance — nor by a performance of Hamlet, for that matter.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Good luck finding anywhere near the Met open after this show. Before, maybe the dependable neighborhood French at La Boite en Bois.