Thomas Hamlet (2010)

After over a century out of the Mets repertoire audiences were thrilled to discover just what a sensational evening in the theater Thomass Hamlet can be Simon Keenlysides riveting performance as the tortured Prince of Denmark in Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leisers starkly brooding production had critics raving that Keenlysides superb singing coupled with his deftly delineated threedimensional Hamlet was one of the greatest examples of operatic drama of our time The cast includes Marlis Petersen as the long suffering Ophélie who brilliantly shows why her mad scene is so justly famous along with Jennifer Larmore and James Morris as Gertrude and Claudius