Name: Hänsel und Gretel
Start: 2021-12-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-12-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Státní Opera Praha (The State Opera)

Organization

Mezzo-soprano

Jana Horáková Levicová

Hänsel

Soprano

Jana Sibera

Gretel

Václav Sibera

Die Knusperhexe

Sångare

Lenka Pavlovič

Fairy

Baritone

Svatopluk Sem

Peter

Jana Sýkorová

Regissör

Matěj Forman

Kostym designer

Andrea Sodomková

Scenograf

Koreograf

Veronika Švábová

Dramaturg

Beno Blachut

Dirigent

Richard Hein

Jiří Hájek

Veronika Hajnová

Kateřina Jalovcová

Michaela Zajmi

Yukiko Šrejmová-Kinjo

Martin Schreiner

Lucie Silkenová

National Theatre Prague

Orchestra

State Opera Orchestra

Others

Kühn Children's Choir

tjeckiska

Hänsel und Gretel -  (Hans och Greta)

Prag

Tjeckien

Státní Opera Praha (The State Opera)

Hänsel und Gretel Humperdinck

Public

Hans och Greta

Saurav Kumar

engelska

Approved

Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel is one of the most frequently performed operas in Germany. Inspired by the Grimm brothers’ popular fairy tale, the libretto was written by the composer’s sister Adelheid Wette, who modified the rather macabre story, adding the characters of the Sandman and the Dew Fairy, as well as the instrumental dream pantomime scene in the forest, and concluding it with the resurrection of the witch’s victims and the happy reunion between the children and their parents. With the music written in the grand Wagnerian romantic style, Humperdinck’s opera also contains folk rhythms, songs for children and old melodies. The world premiere, in Weimar on 23 December 1893, was conducted by Richard Strauss, totally enraptured by the piece. Enraptured too was the audience, and Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel has ever since remained extremely popular in Germany, where every December it has been performed at more than 35 opera houses. In 1905, the piece was first shown at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where it has often been staged during Christmas.

Our current adaptation of Hänsel und Gretel is directed by Matěj Forman, primarily known to Prague audiences as the designer of the magical scenery for the highly acclaimed productions La Belle et la Bête, A Walk Worthwhile and Enchantia, which he has created in recent years for the National Theatre Opera together with his brother Petr. Matěj Forman and his team’s conception of the musical fairy tale was inspired by the world of itinerant theatre.

English

Föreställningskrediter (Medverkande & produktionsteam )

Medverkande

Besättning

Ensemble