Award recognition for Brett Dean’s Hamlet
Brett Dean’s Hamlet, which had its world premiere at Glyndebourne Festival 2017, won World Premiere of the Year at the 2018 International Opera Awards.
Glyndebourne's Director of Development Andrew Higgins, composer Brett Dean and tenor Allan Clayton who performed the role of Hamlet for the opera's world premiere. © Glyndebourne Productions Limited. Photographer Jim Winslet
Hamlet © Glyndebourne Productions Limited. Photographer Richard Hubert Smith
Vladimir Jurowski, who conducted the production, was awarded the Conductor of the Year prize. Hamlet was commissioned towards the end of Jurowski’s time as Glyndebourne’s Music Director (2001 – 2013) and marked his first return to the company since completing his tenure.
The new opera is the work of composer Brett Dean and librettist Matthew Jocelyn and was staged by director Neil Armfield. It had its world premiere at Glyndebourne Festival 2017 and was staged with a new cast for the 2017 Glyndebourne Tour.
Hamlet has also been shortlisted in two categories of the 2018 RPS [Royal Philharmonic Society] Music Awards - Large-Scale Composition and Opera and Music Theatre. Winners will be announced on 9 May.
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