How to pronounce “hadrian” in English

Hadrian, whom I mentioned earlier- ...

Hadrian made him into something grand.

Hadrian made him into a god.

Hadrian made him into someone to be worshiped.

Hadrian's Wall is this enormous wall, 15 feet high, 89 feet long, that the emperor Hadrian built in the 120s.

on Hadrian's Wall.

And Hadrian's Wall built right on top of that.

with Hadrian's Wall.

But not Hadrian and someone, you know, an emperor a few centuries later who's just like him, bilingual in Greek and Latin, who's

And it radically shaped Hadrian's latter part of his reign.

is the take on Hadrian in this opera.

I play the role of Antinous in "Hadrian."

But there are many things that Hadrian was famous for.

I read the book "The Memoirs of Hadrian" by Yourcenar.

And I knew I wanted to write "Hadrian" as an opera, but I didn't feel confident enough in my abilities in terms of orchestration, and just doing that kind of stuff

He heard that I wanted to do "Hadrian," and he commissioned me to do it.

And what I really love about "Hadrian" and about many of the great operas that I love, like "Gloriana" by Britten, which is actually very similar in a lot of ways, which

And what's really great about "Hadrian" is that it understands that interplay.

They can't understand why Hadrian is swept away by this thing that seems, in the scope of history, so inconsequential.

It's a Roman fort up on Hadrian's Wall.

Has anybody ever been up here to Hadrian's Wall, or been to Vindolanda?

The site is very close to Hadrian's Wall.

And then we want to talk a lot about "Hadrian."

The interesting thing about this is seeing in Hadrian's story how all these things that to almost everyone else in the opera are everything.

Wall, Hadrian's Wall, or even going to modern day history, the border fortification of different countries-- not designed to keep enemies out,

And the opera is about that relationship, about Hadrian and Antinous, when they met, their love affair, and Hadrian's pursuit of that mystery, what happened to him

And our job was to really to try to learn Daniel and Rufus's Hadrian, their telling of this story.

You have this, you have Hadrian's Wall here, you have this giant ditch called the vallum.

question is, why do we assume that someone like Hadrian, right, an emperor from the second century sort of a very cosmopolitan figure

And today we're really excited, because we have the creative team behind the new opera "Hadrian," which is debuting this Saturday.

He actually has the best perspective, because he's-- "Hadrian" is an opera about the second century Roman emperor who most of you probably

have heard about or studied in school, and is associated with Hadrian's Wall.

But I do feel like for someone like Thomas Hampson, who plays Hadrian-- and he's one of the great opera stars of the world.

That's what you find out when you start researching, different interpretations of Hadrian.

We point to a series of examples in the book, starting from the famous Hadrian's Wall with the idea of walling in Rome to stop immigration--

You did not wanna mess with Hadrian.

Hi, I'm Peter Hinton, and I am the stage director for "Hadrian."

The other thing for the audience too, I'm wondering, Rufus, if you can explain what is "Hadrian?"

That is an enormous ditch that was built, dug by the Romans in order to protect Hadrian's Wall, and in order to protect this military zone that they created

The area of art that he was most passionate about was ancient art; he imagined himself as something like the reincarnation of the Emperor Hadrian who'd been this great philanthropist

But a thing that I really said to the singers a lot and to the designers when we're working on it is there are lots of different Hadrians.