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

Organization

Baryton

Kosma Rauner Kroon

Peter

Mezzo-soprano

Barbara Schöller

Gertrud

Marzia Marzo

Hansel

Soprano

Silke Evers

Gretel

Akiho Tsujii

Mathew Habib

La Sorcière

Misun Kim

Le Marchand de sable

Chanteur

Julia Baukus

Ein Schutzengel

Direction d'orchestre

Marie Jacquot

André Callegaro

Gabor Hontvári

Mise en scène

Sigrid Herzog

Décors

Julia Katharina Berndt

Costumes

Pascal Seibicke

Lumières

Mariella von Vequel Westernach

Chorégraphie

Tyrel Larson

Katherina Nakui

Dramaturgie

Berthold Warnecke

Mainfranken Theater Würzburg

Others

Opernchor des Mainfranken Theaters Würzburg

Orchestra

Philharmonisches Orchester Würzburg

allemand

Hänsel und Gretel -  (Hansel et Gretel)

Wurtzbourg

Allemagne

Mainfranken Theater

Hänsel und Gretel Humperdinck

Public

Hansel et Gretel

Valide

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.

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