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Lyric Opera of the North

Stage director

Calland Metts

Conductor

Carson Rose Schneider

Costume designer

Ora Jewell-Busche

Set designer

Ann Gumpper

Singer

Soprano

Anna Donnelly

Gretel

Caroline Kouma

Mezzo-soprano

Hannah Wheeler

Hansel

Kaisa Herrmann

Vicki Fingalson

Mother/Witch

Angela Born

Spencer McIntire

Father/Witch

Robert Riordan

Instrumentalist

Bill Munson

Piano

Hänsel und Gretel ( Adaptation)

United States

Public

Teja Boyidi

Approved

Hänsel und Gretel ( Adaptation) Humperdinck

Opera for the Young’s Adaptation of Hansel and Gretel
Music by Engelbert Humperdinck
Libretto by Adelheid Wette
Music adapted by Jeffrey Sykes
Libretto adaptation by Diane Garton Edie
Notable Features
Children play three different parts, allowing for more participation than the original score: Ragamuffins, which opens up conversation on historic and current homelessness and hunger; Pixies; and Gingerbread Cookies.
Mezzo-soprano and baritone share roles as conflicted parents, comforting supernatural Sandman and Sandwoman, AND the evil Witch. This makes the workload in the cast is more even, and changes the traditional psychological slant on the Mother/Witch duality.
In the famous Witch’s aria, the baritone chimes in with a rhythm section of ‘beat boxing’ on the written bass line – an appealing element for today’s young people.

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Hänsel und Gretel ( Adaptation) by Humperdinck, From (2023/2024), Directed by Calland Metts,, Conductor Carson Rose Schneider

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