Name: Hänsel und Gretel
Start: 2021-12-30
End: 2021-12-30
Location: Theater Hagen

Organization

Video designer

Hans-Joachim Köster

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Richard van Gemert

The Gingerbread Witch

Anton Kuzenok

Baritone

Insu Hwang

Peter

Kenneth Mattice

Hanna Larissa Naujoks

Hansel

Soprano

Penny Sofroniadou

Gretel

Angela Davis

Gertrude

Stage director

Holger Potocki

Conductor

Rodrigo Tomillo

Lighting designer

Costume designer

Lena Brexendorff

Set designer

Dramaturge

Rebecca Graitl

Chorus master

Wolfgang Müller-Salow

children's choir

Caroline Piffka

Theater Hagen

Others

Chor Theater Hagen

Children's Choir of the Theater Hagen

German

Hänsel und Gretel -  (Hansel and Gretel)

Hagen

Germany

Hänsel und Gretel Humperdinck

Public

Hansel and Gretel

Approved

Zwei Kinder sind in einem dunklen Wald ganz auf sich allein gestellt. Eine furchteinflößende Situation, doch mit der Hilfe von freundlichen phantastischen We...

The well-known fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel was the basis for Engelbert Humperdinck's opera, which has been one of the most frequently performed works on the opera stage since its premiere in 1893. For the first time in 1812 in the Children's and Household Talesby the Brothers Grimm, it has been taken up and reinterpreted by numerous artists over the centuries. For many, Humperdinck's musical version is one of the most successful ever. The composer integrated a few simple children's and folk songs into his artistic late-Romantic score and thereby created captivatingly beautiful music such as the "Abendsegen". The characters in the opera go beyond the silhouette-like fairy tale characters: the children are not abandoned by their parents, but are sent into the forest by an overwhelmed and exhausted mother. When Hansel and Gretel don't come home, they worry about their children and go in search of them. Humperdinck composed musical psychograms,

Director Holger Potocki and set designer Lena Brexendorff bring the fairytale world to life in poetic images - a production for the whole family!

English

Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck, Thu 30 Dec 2021, From (2021/2022), Directed by Holger Potocki,, Conductor Rodrigo Tomillo, Theater Hagen, Hagen, Germany

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