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About Jérôme Varnier

Voice type: Bass
Past performances in our database:
A Doctor in Pelléas and Mélisande (Opéra de Paris, 2012)
Don Pedro in Béatrice et Bénédict (Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, 2011)
Ghost in Hamlet (Theater an der Wien, 2012)

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Date and venueTitle
28-Apr-2012
Theater an der Wien
Olivier Py’s uncertain Hamlet
Image credit: Stéphane Degout (Hamlet) © Werner KmetitschAmbroise Thomas’s Hamlet has riled and infuriated ever since its 1868 première, though for many it is merely an object of derision: one 1869 correspondent to the satirical magazine Punch admits not having seen the work but nevertheless disparages it as ‘Omelette’, a musical ‘burlesque’, and pillories Thomas’s fondness for drinking songs with the lines ‘To drink or not to drink?
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