Take a good look: the man who stands in the pit of the Opéra-Comique to conduct Ambroise Thomas'
Hamlet
is not only a conductor of international stature who returns after twenty years at the head of the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York and the Cincinnati Orchestra. He is also the new boss of the Opéra-Comique. He is these days intoxicated like a man in love. He holds out a page of music: the trio of the Queen, Hamlet and Ophelia. Ambroise Thomas noted at the bottom of the page:
“There are far more fluctuations in movement in this piece than feeling alone can indicate.” “It's the same tempo and it's never the same tempo. This
Hamlet,
it is music to carve, to chisel, to fetch.
She doesn't talk to herself.
With our interpreters, it is happiness.”
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We push the door to the right, we arrive directly…
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