Opera

Hansel and Gretel

Engelbert Humperdinck

[ New production ]

Fairytale opera in three tableaux
Libretto by Adelheid Wette
Premièred at the Hoftheater in Weimar on 23 December 1893

Infos

Places

Mulhouse

La Filature

Strasbourg

Opéra

Dates

Dec 09, 2020Jan 10, 2021

Prices

6 - 90 €

Duration

1h45

Informations

ÂGE MINIMUM CONSEILLÉ : 10 ANS

Spectacle présenté sans entracte

Cast

Direction musicale Marko Letonja Mise en scène, décors, costumes Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau Lumières Gilles Gentner Chorégraphie Pierre-Émile Lemieux-Venne Les Petits Chanteurs de Strasbourg - Maîtrise de l'Opéra national du Rhin, Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg Chef de chœur Luciano Bibiloni

Artists

Hansel Anaïk Morel Gretel Elisabeth Boudreault Peter Markus Marquardt Gertrud Irmgard Vilsmaier The Witch Spencer Lang Sandman, the Dew Fairy Helène Carpentier

Presentation

Inspired by the well-known Brothers Grimm fairytale, Hansel and Gretel centers on two near-destitute children sent out into the forest by their mother to forage for food. There, they encounter a strange, hostile world and a terrifying child-eating witch. Humperdinck -- Wagner's former assistant and a huge admirer of his opus -- transformed this fairytale into an enchanting and poetic work of opera. While Hansel and Gretel was immediately popular with children in Weimar, the future masterpiece charmed adult audiences too. Anaïk Morel and Elisabeth Boudreault play the young protagonists in this new staging by Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau, conducted by Marko Letonja, a specialist of this repertoire.

In German
Overtitled in French, German