I wish I could understand French, but forget the language, it's pretty funny to see Ophelia performed by a man, entering the stage with a danish pastry in his hand. Someone translate..?
Well, I can tell you this: It's an aria from Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet, the only really successful opera version of the play--mid-neneteenth-century, maybe? It's kind of famous for ending with Hamlet crowned king instead of dying; when it played London, they had to rewrite it ending with Hamlet's death to avoid ridicule. I can't make out much of anything that Ophelia's singing in this clip, but that's not too unusual in opera. I assume it's her "mad scene": those are very popular among opera lovers. Gran Scena has been around for a while, using real, trained opera singers to do parody. If this interest you, check out Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, an all-male, partly drag ballet troupe that performs favorites like Swan Lake. They are largely comic, but the thing is, they have male dancers who perform female parts superbly--on pointe, etc. Their performances might suggest something of what Elizabethan audiences felt when they saw boys play female roles--not so much comedy as admiration for unusual facility. (Kabuki performance in Japan is much the same.)
It is we who are Hamlet. . . . He who has felt his mind sink within him, and sadness cling to his heart like a malady, who has had his hopes blighted and his youth staggered by the apparitions of strange things; who cannot be well at ease when he sees evil hovering near him like a spectre; whose powers of action have been eaten up by thought, he to whom the universe seems infinite, and himself nothing; whose bitterness of soul makes him careless of consequences, and who goes to a play as his best resource to shove off, to a second remove, the evils of life by a mock representation of them—this is the true Hamlet. --William Hazlitt
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Well, I can tell you this: It's an aria from Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet, the only really successful opera version of the play--mid-neneteenth-century, maybe? It's kind of famous for ending with Hamlet crowned king instead of dying; when it played London, they had to rewrite it ending with Hamlet's death to avoid ridicule. I can't make out much of anything that Ophelia's singing in this clip, but that's not too unusual in opera. I assume it's her "mad scene": those are very popular among opera lovers.
Gran Scena has been around for a while, using real, trained opera singers to do parody. If this interest you, check out Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, an all-male, partly drag ballet troupe that performs favorites like Swan Lake. They are largely comic, but the thing is, they have male dancers who perform female parts superbly--on pointe, etc. Their performances might suggest something of what Elizabethan audiences felt when they saw boys play female roles--not so much comedy as admiration for unusual facility. (Kabuki performance in Japan is much the same.)
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