Name: Hänsel und Gretel
Start: 2019-09-29T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-02-05T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Mainfranken Theater

Organization

Baritone

Kosma Ranuer Kroon

Peter

Mezzo-soprano

Barbara Schöller

Gertrude

Marzia Marzo

Hansel

Soprano

Silke Evers

Gretel

Akiho Tsujii

Mathew Habib

The Gingerbread Witch

Misun Kim

Sandman

Singer

Julia Baukus

Ein Schutzengel

Conductor

Marie Jacquot

André Callegaro

Gabor Hontvári

Stage director

Sigrid Herzog

Set designer

Julia Katharina Berndt

Costume designer

Pascal Seibicke

Lighting designer

Mariella von Vequel Westernach

Choreographer

Tyrel Larson

Katherina Nakui

Dramaturge

Berthold Warnecke

Mainfranken Theater Würzburg

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Opernchor des Mainfranken Theaters Würzburg

Orchestra

Philharmonisches Orchester Würzburg

German

Hänsel und Gretel -  (Hansel and Gretel)

Würzburg

Germany

Mainfranken Theater

Hänsel und Gretel Humperdinck

Public

Hansel and Gretel

Approved

I've finished Hansel and Gretel and I think you'll like it... For the time being I'm sending you the things to be set to music and I beg you, dearest Angel-Beard, help, help quickly! ... Now be nice, brother, and make me something really pretty, folksy; this is my most successful little work and really my favorite child.” (Adelheid Wette, 1890)

Only a few composers concentrate the perception of their work on a single work as in the case of Engelbert Humperdinck. Born in 1854, he had hardly received any public recognition up to the end of the 1880s and made ends meet as a teacher at the Hoch Conservatory and as a reviewer for the Frankfurter Zeitung. Humperdinck's big breakthrough came with the so-called "Kinderstuben-Weihfestspiel" "Hansel and Gretel" based on Wagner's Parsifal. It is his first fully worked out opera, to a libretto by his sister Adelheid Wette, four years his junior, and based on the well-known fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. The Weimar premiere on December 23, 1893, conducted by Richard Strauss, established “Hänsel und Gretel” almost exclusively as a Christmas opera from the start. The generic term "fairy tale play" broadens the scope of interpretation but also to the abysmal play of symbols about life, death and redemption. The misguided path of the children, it leads not only into the dark forest, but also into the homeless and eerie undergrowth of the soul.

English

Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck, Wed 05 Feb 2020, From (2019/2020), Directed by Sigrid Herzog,, Conductor Marie Jacquot, André Callegaro, Gabor Hontvári, Mainfranken Theater, Würzburg, Germany

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