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 ...

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 ...

Hullo little boy, little girl. Want a cookie? The Union Avenue Opera has opened a delightful production of Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck. You'll never hear this work performed by a more ...

Mezzo-soprano Claudia Chapa is enjoying her role as the Witch in Hänsel und Gretel, currently being produced by Opera in the Heights. The Witch is a sinister, evil character (she eats children, after ...

Wilmington Concert Opera, the minority and women run opera company of Delaware, will present their proposed 2020 season, “Back to Before.” The mainstage full opera is Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hänsel ...

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Henschel has the right combination of a Wagnerian cackle and lascivious dimples to be able to say, “I am Rosina Sweet-Tooth and I am as friendly and innocent as baby,” and for just a second make it ...

Gingerbread is part of some families’ Christmas traditions. Cannibal witches? Less so. Yet the classic opera “Hansel & Gretel” is a holiday staple, and one that Pittsburgh’s Resonance Works has helped ...

Perhaps you can’t imagine taking your children to the opera. But this Saturday, all myths about children and opera will vanish when the Main Street Opera performs Hansel and Gretel at the Farmington ...

You might think an opera based on the Grimms’ fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel” was designed for children. And you would be right. But the singers playing the title characters in San Diego Opera’s ...

Given its durability and wide appeal, one might expect Hänsel und Gretel to have had a regular place in the Royal Opera’s repertoire but, astonishingly, they haven’t performed it since 1937. Now it’s ...