Located in the UK
Located in the USA
Located in Europe
- Engelbert Humperdinck
Hänsel und Gretel (1893)
- G Schirmer Inc (World)
- 2+pic.22+bcl.2/4231/timp.perc/hp/str
- 1121/2210/timp/hp/str; No full score for reduced orchestration
- children's chorus; ballet
- Alto, Baritone, 3 Mezzo Sopranos, 3 Sopranos; lyric Soprano
- 1 hr 31 min
- Libretto by Adelheid Wette after a Grimm fairytale. English translation by Constance Bache, revised
- English, German
- 4th April 2025, Pfleeger Concert Hall, Glassboro, NJ, United States of America
- 5th April 2025, Pfleeger Concert Hall, Glassboro, NJ, United States of America
Programme Note
Synopsis:
The children Hansel and Gretel are sent into the woods to gather strawberries after their mother finds them playing instead of working. They lose their way in the forest and fall asleep and in the morning they come upon a witch’s gingerbread house. The witch locks up Hansel and forces Gretel to work for her, but the children trick the witch, push her into the oven and thereby free all the children who had been turned into gingerbread cookies.
The children Hansel and Gretel are sent into the woods to gather strawberries after their mother finds them playing instead of working. They lose their way in the forest and fall asleep and in the morning they come upon a witch’s gingerbread house. The witch locks up Hansel and forces Gretel to work for her, but the children trick the witch, push her into the oven and thereby free all the children who had been turned into gingerbread cookies.