Maria Callas - A vos jeux - Hamlet (1868) - Ambroise Thomas (1811 - 1896). LIVE at Shrine Auditorium 29.XI.1958 - Los Angeles - US. Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra M.° Nicola Rescigno Conductor. Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (5 August 1811 – 12 February 1896) was a French composer, best known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868, after Shakespeare) and as Director of the Conservatoire de Paris from 1871 till his death. Hamlet is a grand opera in five acts of 1868, with a libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier based on a French adaptation by Alexandre Dumas, père, and Paul Meurice of William Shakespeares play Hamlet. The work was premiered at the Paris Opéra (Salle Le Peletier) on 9 March 1868. Among the noted singers in the original cast were Jean-Baptiste Faure (15 January 1830 – 9 November 1914) - a celebrated French operatic baritone and an art collector of great significance. He also composed a number of classical songs - as Hamlet and Christine Nilsson - Christina Nilsson, Countess de Casa Miranda, (20 August 1843 - 20 November 1921) a Swedish operatic soprano who possessed a brilliant bel canto technique and was considered a rival to the Victorian eras most famous diva, Adelina Patti. Nilsson became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1869 - as Ophelia. https://youtube/watch?v=PtFJxmh174s
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