Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel – Frank, Noack, Kuntschew, Petersamer, Kaminskaite, Marschall, Anhaltische Philharmonie
About this event
A family classic, Hänsel und Gretel grew out of a set of incidental music and, written between 1890 and 1893, it was first performed on 23 December 1893 under Richard Strauss in Weimar. The form in which the story is used in the opera derives from the collection of Ludwig Bechstein. Gertrud, the desperate mother, sends her hungry children into the woods to pick strawberries, unaware of the danger to which she exposes them until Peter, the broombinder, returns and is shocked at what she has done; both anxious parents immediately set out to find them. The thoroughly happy ending introduces another significant variation to the familiar version of the brothers J. and W. Grimm.
Programme
Concert – approx. 99 minutes
Repertoire
Engelbert Humperdinck - Hänsel und Gretel
Production Cast
Director | Johannes Felsenstein |
Recording Information
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