Hansel and Gretel are the children of a poor broomstick maker and his wife. One day they are playing so boisterously that they neglect their chores, so their mother sends them into the woods to gather ...

Mezzo-soprano Hilary Ginther (l) and soprano Katie Dixon (r) from Opera in the Heights’ Hänsel und Gretel. Photo by St. John Flynn Written in 1892, Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel is based ...

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It seems that The House got cold feet about the cold store after tabloid uproar - though not so much as to stop a revival - and the result now is a much cleaner but not much more flavoursome fantasy ...

The year is 1943 and Hansel and Gretel are good German children. At least they appear to be. But then who's to say what’s right und wrong? After being abandoned by their parents deep into the woods ...

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When Opera in the Heights announced it would perform Englebert Humperdinck’s gargantuan fairy tale – gargantuan in size of its orchestra – I immediately thought, what a boneheaded mistake, this’ll ...

Hansel and Gretel is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck, who described it as a Märchenoper (fairy tale opera). The libretto was written by Humperdinck's sister, Adelheid ...

As a remedy for autumn blues, nothing beats L’elisir d’amore, while two outstanding performances lift Hansel und Gretel, part of the strongest Glyndebourne tour for years Hansel and Gretel performed ...

In Laurent Pelly's new production of Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, deforestation is already advanced: plastic bags hang from denuded trees, and the ground is strewn with the discarded waste of our ...

Last night’s opening of the Royal Opera’s revival of its jaunty 2008 production fielded in a splendid cast a tremendous Witch, Jane Henschel, the size of a ship in a cardigan, and with a voice that ...