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

Organization

Direzione d'orchestra

Codruţ Bîrsan

Assistant Director

Helen Park

Assistant Conductor

Christian Olson

Resident Coach

​Gongmingn Jiang

Cantante

Soprano

Elizaveta Kozlova

Gretel

Suehyun Ko

Mezzosoprano

Cassie Warthen

Gertrude

Kathleen Crandall

Margarita Parsamyan

Sabbiolino

Katniss Bi

Grace Manning

Rugiadino

Sabrina Cohn

Grace Verbic

Hänsel

Vanessa Jara

Alyce Daubenspeck

La Strega Marzapane

Veronica Williams

Baritono

Yongjae Lee

Pietro

CodyRay Caho

Megan McCarthy

Haeun Baek

Leora Gilgur

Eduardo Belmonte

Regia

Margaret Jumonville

Chicago Summer Opera

Hänsel und Gretel -  (Hansel e Gretel)

Des Plaines

Stati Uniti

Prairie Lakes Theater

Hänsel und Gretel Humperdinck

Public

Hansel e Gretel

Approvato

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 e Gretel by Humperdinck, Da (2021/2021), Diretto da Margaret Jumonville,, Direttore d'orchestra Codruţ Bîrsan, Prairie Lakes Theater, Des Plaines, Stati Uniti

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