Composer Brett Dean needed some sage advice to adapt Shakespeare’s longest play.
Call it the Pimm’s factor. When composer Brett Dean shared news of his commission to transformThere would be a lengthy 90-minute interval in the opera house where it would premiere, Dean’s friend, the eminent British conductor Sir Simon Rattle, reminded him. That’s long enough to down an aperitif or two and picnic on the lawn at England’s bucolic Glyndebourne.Wolter PeetersHis solution has been a knockout post-interval start and making the first half longer than the second.
Dean, 52, had studied some Shakespeare at Brisbane State High School, although he was more familiar with. But he began a deep dive into the text, scholarly articles, and watching stage productions, films and recordings. Revenge, madness, regicide, suicide, betrayal – and a gravedigger – remain. Out has gone the world beyond Elsinore, replete with military, ambassadors and lawyers., what to do about Shakespeare’s most famous line from the playwright’s most famous soliloquy? To sing or not to sing, that is the question. Dean has tackled that head-on, at least in a fragmentary way.
“It was based on words that were not only said by Ophelia but said to Ophelia or about her,” Dean says.In the process, he decided Ophelia was more significant than he initially realised, and the opera reflects that.
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