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Hamlet
Act 1 Scene 1


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Gene Tyburn

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This aria is from Act one, Scene two of the most famous works of Shakespeare. Naturally, it is my adaptation of the most famous speech in the English, "To be or not to Be".
No writer since Shakespeare has been able to synthesize such lofty concepts regarding the mystery of life and death and the beyond in so few words. Note that this great work of art has never been successfully created in opera form, in any language. yes, there have been several attempts, but all dismal failures... failures because there has never been a marriage of composer and librettist that have been able to plumb the depths of the drama and give the music flights of angles to carry it away.
This is our attempt to do that.


Tyburn Opera works is seeking a new composer for this work of rhyming couplets
If interested, please contact me.

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a new lyrical libretto in English of

"To be or Not to be"

To the potential composers:

After listening to this most important aria, "To be or not to be" in my opera of Hamlet,
a potential composer should use this aria to autition for this new opera.
Please send me your music. A CD or digital file of the aria in voice and piano.
If I feel the work is what I am looking for, (a lyrical dynamic opera that will appeal to the general public)
we can talk about a partnership.

This would be the fourth opera composed in my quartet of 'Operas for Everyone'.


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