Cecilia Bartoli: La mort d’Ophélie (Berlioz)

“La mort d’Ophélie (The death of Ophelia) is “a setting of a ballad by Ernest Legouvé, based on Gertrude’s description of Ophelia’s drowning in Act IV of Hamlet. It was originally composed for solo voice and piano in 1842, but in 1848 Berlioz revised it for female choir and orchestra. The verses of Ernest Legouvé…