Prague Po Choir/Wiener Sym - Franch Faccio: Amleto 'Hamlet'

First performed in 1865, Amleto (�Hamlet�) represented a radical new development in Italian opera, the nuovo melodramma. Composer Franco Faccio and his librettist Arrigo Boito sought a greater degree of musical unity in staged productions and a more equal relationship between text and music. In Hamlet, a play that many then considered un-operatic, they found the perfect medium through which to explore the work�s philosophical and dramatic power � not least the