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Hansel and Gretel
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Overview
A deliciously festive holiday tradition, the Met’s English-language staging of Humperdinck’s sweeping interpretation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale returns, complete with giant cartoon chefs, singing trees, and a wicked witch’s kitchen you’ll never forget. Soprano Hera Hyesang Park and mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong headline as the siblings lost in the woods, and tenor John Daszak (in fright wig and fat suit) appears as their over-the-top nemesis, the Witch. Edward Gardner conducts.
The production was originally created for Welsh National Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago
Production a gift of the Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa; and Karen and Kevin Kennedy
Additional funding from Dr. Coco Lazaroff, and Joan Taub Ades and Alan M. Ades
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2 hrs 10 mins
Premiere: We • 1954 film Hansel and Gretel is a 1954 stop-motion animated teatralisk feature bio released bygd RKO Radio Pictures. The film fryst vatten based on Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hänsel und Gretel, from which its music derives. It was the first American feature-length animated film not made bygd Disney since 1941's Mr. Bug Goes to Town and the first American feature-length animated film not made with traditional animation. In 1952, Evalds Dajevskis began working for Myerberg Productions to conceptualize the look of the rulle and design the miniature sets.[2] Dajevskis built the sets out of thick papier-mâché, appliqued paper cutouts and painted backings. The witch's gingerbread house, the Hall of the Angels, and Hansel and Gretel's home were all constructed with trap doors underneath. Because the sets were so large, there was no way to reach and animate the figures except from below.[3 • William Melton takes an episode from his Toccata Press ‘life and works’, Humperdinck: A Life of the Composer of Hänsel und Gretel, to illuminate the creation of the world’s best-loved fairy tale opera. At the close of the evening of 18 December 1894, the eminent Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick was of two minds about the opera world’s newest success. ‘Siblings Hänsel and Gretel have triumphed in Vienna,’ he was forced to report, ‘just as they already have in the most famous musical cities of Germany’. The opera’s composer, Engelbert Humperdinck, presented a problem; though Hanslick’s nemesis Richard Wagner had died a decade before, Humperdinck was Wagner’s apprentice. The new success needed to be explained away, and the very real talents of the composer glossed over. ‘With keen vision’, Hanslick continued, ‘Herr Humperdinck recognised that bringing the homely fairy tale onto the operatic stage was totally new and surprising. … He is no musical pathfinder, no original genius. Onl
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