Purchase Opera: Hamlet

Ambroise Thomas
Hamlet

The Purchase Opera
Jacque Trussel, Director
Hugh Murphy, Conductor

The music of French composer Ambroise Thomas exquisitely illustrates Shakespeare’s tragic tale of madness, deceit, and revenge.

Voice and Opera Studies is a highly selective and unique program in the Purchase College Conservatory of Music, designed especially to train and mentor serious young singers in their pursuit of a career in professional classical singing and opera. The program offers a highly disciplined and completely integrated curriculum taught by a talented, passionate, committed, and caring faculty, all of whom were or are active, first-class performing artists. The Purchase Opera has won multiple first-place awards from the prestigious National Opera Association, beginning in 2004 through the 2010–12 award for Confession (Dominick Argento Chamber Opera Competition), the 2012–13 award for Die Fledermaus (Division II: Opera Production Competition), and the 2014 award for Hänsel und Gretel (Division I: Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition).