By Cal
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKCSZMfkv5k
Available until: Sunday 23rd August, 9pm
I wasn’t sure I’d enjoy reviewing a version of Hamlet
quite so soon after The Show Must Go Online’s magnificent production of
Shakespeare’s play, but I reminded myself that an opera is a different medium
and probably nearly as different from the play as an Agatha Christie TV
adaption is from the actual novel. Actually, the opera was closer to the play
than I was expecting, even using Shakespeare’s text, but I did find I was
thinking of the opera as a piece on its own merits as an opera, rather than just
as a version of the play which inspired it.
