Ambleto is a fascinating musical-historical curiosity: a Baroque libretto by Apostolo Zeno on the legend of Hamlet, based not on Shakespeare's tragedy but on the main source, the Gesta Danorum (Deeds of the Danes) by Saxo Gramaticus. This audacious drama was first set to music by Francesco Gasparini (Venice 1705) - whose version served as the basis for a pasticcio (London 1712) with arias by various composers, including Handel, then Domenico Scarlatti (Rome 1715) and Giuseppe Carcani (Venice 1743). The surviving arias from these lost operas are brought back to life by the Concert de l'Hostel Dieu and the charismatic soprano Roberta Mameli. She slips into the roles of the eponymous Danish prince and the strong women around him, his courageous lover Veremonda (Shakespeare's Ophelia) and his tormented mother Gerilda (Gertrude).

Giuseppe Carcani: "Son Sdegnato", "Segui ad amar costante" & "Piu fido non poss'io" aus Ambleto
+Francesco Gasparini: "Nella mia sfortunata prigiona", "Stelle, voi che de' regnanti", "Tromba in campo e spada in guerra", "Cinto d'amiche rose un di crescea" aus Ambleto; The Symphony or Overture in Hamlet C-Dur
+Johann Adolph Hasse: Symphonie g-moll op. 5 Nr. 6
+Georg Friedrich Händel: "Ti indegno sei dell'allor" aus L'Ambleto
+Domenico Scarlatti: Sinfonia d-moll; "Nella mia sfortunata prigionia" aus Ambleto
+Carlo Francesco Pollarolo: "D'ire armato il braccio forte" aus L'Ambleto