13 March 1975
Boston Ballet premiered Lorenzo Monreal's one-act ballet Hamlet, based on Shakespeare's tragic story. Set to the music of Dmitri Shostakovitch the work premiered with Woytek Lowski as the titular prince; Elaine Bauer as Gertrude, Queen of Denmark, Hamlet's mother; Dierdre Myles as Ophelia, and Lorenzo Monreal himself as Claudius, King of Denmark and Hamlet's uncle.
Elaine Bauer and Boston Ballet in Lorenzo Monreal's Hamlet
Photograph by Ron Montbleau
Boston Ballet Archives