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First staged by the Paris Opera in 1868, Ambroise Thomas's five-act Hamlet was a fairly regular visitor to the Covent Garden stage in the late-nineteenth century, when audiences could hear Charles Santley in the title role and (later) such divas as Nellie Melba and Emma Calve as Ophelie. It was last given there in 1910, but Thomas's score has enjoyed something of a revival in recent decades and now seems more often encountered than his greatest success, Mignon. So its return to the Royal Opera House, in a new production by Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser, with their regular design team of Christian Fenouillat (sets), Agostino Cavalca (costumes) and Christopher Forey ...