In 1986, the novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany interviewed the composer Anthony Davis, whose opera “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X” had just received a triumphant première at New York City ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The Metropolitan Opera presents “Hamlet” for the the final Live in HD ...

Tomorrow night OperaDelaware debuts Franco Faccio’s long lost operatic adaptation of “Hamlet” at The Grand Opera House in Wilmington. When tenor Joshua Kohl was reading Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” in ...

If you haven’t seen the Washington National Opera’s production of “Hamlet” at the Kennedy Center yet, you might not understand how anyone could dream of setting Ambroise Thomas’ 1868 opera in “Denmark ...

Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills to two of Shakespeare’s unforgettable characters. When this production, directed by Patrice Caurier and Moshe ...

Almost exactly 100 years after Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, composer Francesco Gasparini in Venice turned the revenge story into an opera titled Ambleto. Gasparini had likely never heard of the Bard.