Prince Hamlet of Denmark, urged by his father's ghost, seeks to avenge the king's murder at the hands of his uncle Claudius, who has married Hamlet's mother Gertrude. Hamlet's feigned madness drives the innocent Ophélie to real insanity and death. In the opera's climax, Hamlet kills Claudius and is proclaimed king by the people, departing from Shakespeare's tragic ending.
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