WILMINGTON, Del. — Franco Faccio’s opera “Amleto,” based on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” languished for more than 130 years, from its fiasco at the Italian theater La Scala in 1871 to the early 2000s, when a young conductor named Anthony Barrese tracked down the score and started transcribing 900 pages of handwritten manuscript. His work paid off. “Amleto” had its modern debut in a 2014 concert performance in Baltimore, had its first full staging later that year at Opera Southwest, in Albuquerque, and, on Friday night, came to Opera Delaware in its staged East Coast premiere, before it moves to Austria this summer for the Bregenz Festival...
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