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Mezzo-soprano Hilary Ginther (l) and soprano Katie Dixon (r) from Opera in the Heights’ Hänsel und Gretel. Photo by St. John Flynn Written in 1892, Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel is based ...
When Opera in the Heights announced it would perform Englebert Humperdinck’s gargantuan fairy tale – gargantuan in size of its orchestra – I immediately thought, what a boneheaded mistake, this’ll ...
Hansel and Gretel is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck, who described it as a Märchenoper (fairy tale opera). The libretto was written by Humperdinck's sister, Adelheid ...
NEW YORK, Dec. 31 -- Based on one of the German fairytales immortalized by the Brothers Grimm, "Hansel und Gretel" has lived on for more than a century as suitable Christmas fare for generations of ...
The year is 1943 and Hansel and Gretel are good German children. At least they appear to be. But then who's to say what’s right und wrong? After being abandoned by their parents deep into the woods ...
As a remedy for autumn blues, nothing beats L’elisir d’amore, while two outstanding performances lift Hansel und Gretel, part of the strongest Glyndebourne tour for years Hansel and Gretel performed ...
In Laurent Pelly's new production of Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, deforestation is already advanced: plastic bags hang from denuded trees, and the ground is strewn with the discarded waste of our ...