The former Canadian Stage director talks to The Globe about the challenges of interpreting Hamlet and the joys of discovering a new city
, which premiered at the Glyndebourne opera festival in England to acclaim in 2017. It is currently in production at the Sydney Opera House in Australia to Aug. 9.
No doubt it is, but did the general director of Toronto’s Koffler Centre of the Arts and former director of Canadian Stage absolutely need to be there? To be or not to be in Australia, that is the question posed to him. I don’t have to follow the production wherever it goes. But it’s nice to see each iteration as it evolves, and to be able to comment on the work and to give recommendations to singers about articulation and about meaning, because the singers change. And there’s the presence of the solidarity and the pleasure of reaping the pleasures of one’s toils of labour. Also, it’s Sydney Opera House, one of the most iconic buildings in the world.
When Brett Dean asked me whether I’d consider doing this project with him, in 2013, he said he wanted to write an opera based ontext. The first folio version, which is considered by many to be the textbook version, was published two years after his death. The first quarto version was published in Shakespeare’s lifetime, and there are some great pithy lines. We chose to integrate some of that into the opera.That’s very kind of him. I’m fine with it. I’m fine with anyone writing anything.
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