“Amleto by Franco Faccio (1840-91) had a disastrous 1871 La Scala premiere … [and] the composer never again allowed the opera to be performed … The librettist was young Arrigo Boito (1842-1918), known as one of the great librettists in opera history for his later collaborations with Verdi on Otello and Falstaff. … And the singers and the creative team [for a new revival] say this operatic Hamlet needs no apologies.”