Live high-definition broadcast of the matinee performance of the Metropolitan Opera from New York — 10:00 a.m. Saturday morning. Admission: $18 members, $22 non-members, $15 students. Please call or email for tickets. Credit cards accepted.

Hamlet — Ambroise Thomas

The works of Shakespeare have inspired more operatic adaptations than any other writer's. Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay bring their extraordinary acting and singing skills to two of the Bard's most unforgettable characters in this new production of Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet. For the role of Ophelia, the French composer created an extended mad scene that is among the greatest in opera.

Conductor: Louis Langrée; Production: Patrice Caurier/Moshe Leiser; Marlis Petersen, Jennifer Larmore, Toby Spence, Simon Keenlyside, James Morris.

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