<sod>Faccio's second opera, ''[[Amleto]]'', one of the many operas based on [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Hamlet]]'', was written for Genoa's [[Teatro Carlo Felice]] and was given its première on 30 May 1865. The cast included some of the finest singers of the day. As Ashbrook notes, while its "innovatory libretto" was written by Boito, there was "dismay at the score's paucity of melody".<ref name="ASH2"/> but he does add that Ophelia's funeral march, the "Marcia Funebre", "[won] general approval".<ref name="ASH2"/><eod>
<sod>Faccio's second opera, ''[[Amleto]]'', one of the many operas based on [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Hamlet]]'', was written for Genoa's [[Teatro Carlo Felice]] and was given its première on 30 May 1865. The cast included some of the finest singers of the day. As Ashbrook notes, while its "innovatory libretto" was written by Boito, there was "dismay at the score's paucity of melody",<ref name="ASH2"/> but he does add that Ophelia's funeral march, the "Marcia Funebre", "[won] general approval".<ref name="ASH2"/><eod>