Organization

Stage director

Andreas Meyer-Hanno

Set designer

Gerda Zientek

Soprano (+2)

Esther Mertel

Costume designer

Inge Diettrich

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+1)

Ricardo Navas Valbuena

Orchestra

Duisburg Philharmonic

Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra

Chorus

Düsseldorfer Mädchen- und Jungenchor

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Contralto (+1)

Renée Morloc

Gertrude

Baritone (+3)

Stefan Heidemann

Peter

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Verena Kronbichler

Sandman

Soprano

Bogdana Bevziuk

Dewman

Soprano (+1)

Heidi Elisabeth Meier

Gretel

Anke Krabbe

Morenike Fadayomi

The Gingerbread Witch

Anna Sophia Theil

Opernhaus Düsseldorf

Conductor

Vitali Alekseenok

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Simone McIntosh

Hansel

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Alexandra Yangel

Christoph Stöcker

Péter Halász

Romana Noack

Tenor (+6)

Florian Simson

Insu Hwang

Theater Duisburg

Conductor (+1)

Harry Ogg

Lavinia Dames

Cornel Frey

Kimberley Boettger-Soller

Mara Guseynova

Sarah Ferede

Richard Sveda

Chorong Kim

Valerie Eickhoff

Mezzo-soprano (+6)

Anna Harvey

Hagar Sharvit

Baritone (+4)

Anooshah Golesorkhi

Aisha Tümmler

Sebastian Ludwig

Baritone (+2)

Frank Dolphin Wong

It's the well-known story of the two poor broom-maker children who got lost in the woods and fell into the clutches of the evil witch Rosina Leckermaul. The music is also ringing in the ear, as the composer Engelbert Humperdinck has embedded folksy, catchy melodies in the richness of a late-Romantic orchestral apparatus.

“Hansel and Gretel” belongs on the pre-Christmas opera schedule like gingerbread on a crispy house. The cult production by Andreas Meyer-Hanno is just as irresistible as the sweet pastries.

Grianghraif