Allan Clayton performs an excerpt from Hamlet’s famous Act I soliloquy, “To be, or not to be” in the Met’s contemporary opera based on Shakespeare’s masterpiece.
TRANSCRIPT
♪♪ ... or not to be ♪♪ ♪♪ To be. ♪♪ ♪♪ Ay, there's the point ♪♪ ♪♪ To die, to sleep - Is that all? Ay, all ♪♪ ♪♪ No! To sleep, to dream ♪♪ ♪♪ Ay, there it goes ♪♪ ♪♪ To sleep, to dream ♪♪ ♪♪ For in that dream of death, when we're waked... ♪♪ ♪♪ and borne before the everylasting - ♪♪ ♪♪ The undiscovered country... ♪♪ ♪♪ from whose bourn no traveller ever returns - ♪♪
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