Hamlet
$100.00 – $200.00
Joseph Summer brings us along to Elsinore with The Bard’s classic play in an all new setting complete with the lyric integrity of Shakespeare’s words in a contemporary musical arrangement. The celebrated revenge tragedy bursts with a new modern flair while keeping the spirit and riveting narrative of the original alive.
Act I
- Prelude
- Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death
- And now, Laertes
- O, that this too too solid flesh
- Hail to your lordship
- My necessaries are embarked
- Oh my lord, oh my lord
- And with his head over his shoulders
- By heaven, it is as proper to our age
- Interlude
- Angels and ministers of grace defend me
- My liege, and madam to expostulate
- Welcome dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Act II
- Prelude
- I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play
- Did he receive you well
- Can you, by no brief circumstance
- With all my heart
- You are welcome
- To be or not to be
- My lord, I have remembrances
- Interlude
- The Mousetrap – How fares our cousin Hamlet
- So many journeys
- He poisons him in the garden
- Thoughts black, Hands apt
- What a Piece of Work is Man
- My lord, the queen would speak with you
- He will come straight
- What will thou do
Act III
- Prelude – To my sick soul
- Tomorrow is St. Valentine’s Day
- Well, not so secret
- This nothing’s more than matter
- Interlude
- There is a willow
- Horatio, when thou shalt have overlooked this
- Interlude
- In youth when I did love
- Lay her in the earth
- Hamlet, hamlet
- Windum, windum
- Give me your pardon, sir
- Follow my mother
- I die, Horatio – Now cracks a noble heart
An Inside Look
Joseph Summer gives an inside look into his early days of writing opera
Performance Photos
Photos from the premiere performance of Hamlet at the Dohodno Zdaniein in Ruse, Bulgaria
Studio Journal
A series of anecdotes and stories surrounding the operatic adaptation of Hamlet from the PARMA Recordings blog.
