Plot Summary:French composer Ambroise Thomas sticks close to Shakespeare's basic plot, with an added Mad Scene for Ophelia. Simon Keenlyside is the brooding Prince of Denmark, for whom the play's the thing in which to catch the conscience of the king.
Richard Cassilly,Eva Marton,James Levine,Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet,Tatiana Troyanos,Bernd Weikl,John Macurdy,Robert Nagy,Richard J. Clark,Charles Anthony,Richard Vernon,Bill Blaber