The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel

Overview

The Metropolitan Opera's performance of "Hansel and Gretel" features music by Engelbert Humperdinck and is conducted by Thomas Fulton. The Met's storybook production cheerfully evokes a magic world of woodland sprites and candy dreams and yet brings as well the entire apparatus of Wagnerian music and drama to bear on a German fairy tale. This production is sung in English, and features the Metropolitan Opera, Chorus, and Ballet.

Cast

Judith Blegen

Gretel

Frederica von Stade

Hansel

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Jean Kraft

Gertrude

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Michael Devlin

Peter

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Diane Kesling

The Sandman

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Betsy Norden

The Dew Fairy

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Rosalind Elias

The Witch

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Thomas Fulton

Self - Conductor

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MET Orchestra