The viola player Brett Dean took a risk that paid off when he left the orchestra to become a full-time composer.

On May 13, the Metropolitan Opera will present the company premiere of Australian composer Brett Dean's Hamlet, a bold adaptation of Shakespeare's timeless drama, with six additional performances ...

Experience this contemporary opera based on Shakespeare’s masterpiece directed by Neil Armfield and composed by Brett Dean. Starring Allan Clayton in the title role, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly as ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Neil Armfield’s production of the Brett Dean opera Hamlet is a confronting three hours in the theatre, but then so is Shakespeare’s play. The second act is devastating in its emotional impact.

The concert world, seemingly back to normal, saw Ukrainian musicians banding together, a new “Ring” at Bayreuth, and the opening of the revamped David Geffen Hall. By Zachary Woolfe and Joshua Barone ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Dean is an Australian composer, born in 1961. For about 15 years—1984 to 2000—he played the viola in the Berlin ...