Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Lindsay Grace Johnson

Gertrude

Stage director

Stephen Lawless

Conductor

Adam Hickox

Set designer

Adrian Linford

Costume designer

Lighting designer

John Bishop

Choreographer

Luke Murphy

Chorus master

Philip White

Repetiteur

Katja Riek

Ascelina Klee

Hansel

Soprano

Elena Garrido Madrona

Gretel

Baritone

Jonathan Forbes Kennedy

Peter

Toki Hamano

Marie Cayeux

Dewman

Karla Grant

Sandman

Amy Strachan

Cameron Mitchell

The Gingerbread Witch

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

German

Hänsel und Gretel -  (Hansel and Gretel)

Glasgow

United Kingdom

New Athenaeum Theatre

Public

Hansel and Gretel

English

Approved

Hänsel und Gretel Humperdinck

Humperdink’s Hansel and Gretel has a long association with Christmas….indeed it was premiered on 23rd December 1893 and has been the operatic mainstay of the Christmas season ever since…the operatic equivalent of The Nutcracker, a safe introduction to opera for young children in the form of an upmarket pantomime with its Witch, its Fairy and even a principal boy in the form of Hansel.

Yet behind this there is a much darker side.  The piece fundamentally deals with childhood poverty and how many children go hungry even when surrounded by food.  This darkness extends to the comedy of the piece in the form of the Witch – in our version a Celebrity Chef launching her new Christmas cookbook “Cooking with Children”- and her increasingly desperate attempts to consume Hansel.

We have seized on this connection between Christmas and deprivation as the basis  for our production.  The Season of Good Will is not necessarily  extended to all.  Hansel and Gretel find themselves [like many children today] homeless at Christmas.

Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck, From (2022/2022), Directed by Stephen Lawless,, Conductor Adam Hickox, New Athenaeum Theatre, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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