
🎵 "To Be...
A new
opera version of Hamlet is onstage at New York’s
Metropolitan Opera, with a special live broadcast
showing in movie theaters June 4. Composer Brett Dean
and librettist Matthew Jocelyn talk with our podcast
host Barbara Bogaev about adapting Shakespeare's
tragedy.
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...
Or Not to Be" 🎵
In
Brett Dean's opera, the very first line is "Or not
to be." Tenor Allan Clayton, who plays the title
role in Hamlet, shares his favorite parts of the
opera as well as the thrill of subverting audience
expectations with such well-known source material.
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A Folger
for the Future
The
Wonder of Will: The Campaign for the Folger Shakespeare Library
supports the Folger's renovation and the
incredible programming that will fill our new spaces when they
are complete.
Step
behind the construction fences to discover how our renovated
building will welcome generations to come. In this video, which
premiered at the Folger Gala last week, Folger Director Michael
Witmore, members of the Folger's Board of Governors, and the Folger's
new Director of Programming and Artistic Director of Folger
Theatre, Karen Ann Daniels, reflect on the future of the Folger
and the support needed to accomplish this vision.
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The
Cuckoo: Birds of Shakespeare
Thanks
to its peculiar reproductive cycle, distant migration,
and haunting melodies, the cuckoo may hold the title
for most folklore among Shakespeare’s birds.
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Jacob
Ming-Trent on Falstaff & Bottom
Jacob
Ming-Trent looks back on Shakespeare in the Park's Merry
Wives (now on PBS's Great Performances) and ahead
to Folger Theatre's Midsummer.
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Lunar
Eclipses in Shakespeare
Did you
catch the total lunar eclipse that occurred earlier
this month? Take a look at three of the ways
Shakespeare used eclipses in his plays and poems.
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#FolgerFinds
For more encounters with
the Folger collection, follow @FolgerLibrary
on Instagram.
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Image Credits: Sarah Connolly as Gertrude;
Rod Gilfry as Claudius; Chad Shelton, Justin
Austin, and John Relea (on floor) as Players;
William Burden as Polonius; and Brenda Rae as
Ophelia in Brett Dean's "Hamlet." Photo:
Karen Almond / Met Opera | Allan Clayton in the
title role of Brett Dean’s “Hamlet.” Photo: Karen
Almond / Met Opera | Jarrett Arp, Karen Ann
Daniels, Michael Witmore, May Liang | Common
Cuckoo, Cuculus canorus by Missy Dunaway.
30×22 inches, acrylic ink on paper. | Jacob Ming
Trent (Falstaff) in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare
in the Park production of MERRY WIVES at the
Delacorte Theater in Central Park, August 25, 2021.
Photo by Joe Sinnott. | Lunar eclipse photo by
Claudio Testa on Unsplash
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