Name: Hänsel und Gretel
Start: 2021-08-13T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-08-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Prairie Lakes Theater

Organization

Conductor

Codruţ Bîrsan

Assistant Director

Helen Park

Assistant Conductor

Christian Olson

Resident Coach

​Gongmingn Jiang

Soprano

Elizaveta Kozlova

Gretel

Suehyun Ko

Mezzo-soprano

Cassie Warthen

Gertrude

Kathleen Crandall

Margarita Parsamyan

Sandman

Katniss Bi

Grace Manning

Dewman

Sabrina Cohn

Grace Verbic

Hansel

Vanessa Jara

Alyce Daubenspeck

The Gingerbread Witch

Veronica Williams

Baritone

Yongjae Lee

Peter

CodyRay Caho

Megan McCarthy

Haeun Baek

Leora Gilgur

Eduardo Belmonte

Stage director

Margaret Jumonville

Chicago Summer Opera

Hänsel und Gretel -  (Hansel and Gretel)

Des Plaines

United States

Prairie Lakes Theater

Hänsel und Gretel Humperdinck

Public

Hansel and Gretel

Approved

Bass

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Librettist

Set designer

Costume designer

Choreographer

Lighting designer

Dancer

Actor

Chorus master

Video designer

Dramaturge

Translator

Sound designer

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

Other

Stage Manager

Choir

Orchestra

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Illustrator

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Extra

Countertenor

Singer

Contralto

Bass-baritone

Tenor

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

The young siblings Hänsel and Gretel live in poverty with their parents on the edge of a deep forest. During one chore-filled day, they grumble over their hunger and distract themselves with jokes and dancing. Their mother Gertrude, driven by anxiety over feeding her family, grows frustrated with their antics and orders them to leave the house to pick strawberries. When their father Peter arrives home with a surprise bounty of food, he and Gertrude rejoice before realizing the children have not returned. After recalling rumors of the Ilsenstein, the mountain home of a witch who uses sweets to lure children towards a horrible fate, the parents go off in search of Hänsel and Gretel.
The children, who eat more strawberries than they pick, realize they’re lost. Thanks to the Sandman and the protection of 14 angels, Hänsel and Gretel drift off to sleep. When the Dew Fairy awakes them, the children discover a beautiful gingerbread house adorned with delicious sweets. They begin to eat and are captured by the Witch, who intends to use their love of sweets to her advantage by fattening the siblings for her own feast. The true darkness of this tale of poverty and hunger is muted by Humperdinck’s memorable melodies and the imaginative, candy-bright viewpoint of the youthful protagonists; in the same way, Hänsel and Gretel’s ingenuity and teamwork as they work to escape provides comfort and hope to all who face nightmarish fears.
Based on the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale of a brother and sister’s candy-filled misadventure, it is rather fitting that Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel and Gretel was born from a request by his own sister for a set of children’s songs. Humperdinck gradually expanded the work into the popular opera, for which that same sister, Adelheid Wette, penned the libretto.

English

Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck, sun 15 ágú 2021, Frá (2021/2021), Leikstýrt af Margaret Jumonville,, Hljómsveitarstjóri Codruţ Bîrsan, Prairie Lakes Theater, Des Plaines, United States

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