Sophie Hunter, an opera director and actor who happens to be married to Benedict Cumberbatch, “sees no real distinction between her niche work in opera and the kind of commercial success that her husband enjoys in films such as The Imitation Game or in next month’s production of Hamlet at the Barbican, for which all but ‘on the day’ tickets sold out quickly. ‘My job now is to make work, to tell stories,’ Hunter said.”