Engelbert Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel (Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden)

From the Semperoper Dresden, 2006
Fairy-tale Opera in three acts by Engelbert Humperdinck based on a libretto by Adelheid Wette

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Antigone Papoulkas - Hänsel
Anna Gabler - Greten
Hans-Joachim Ketelsen - Father
Irmgard Vilsmaier - Mother
Iris Vermillion - Witch
Lydia Teuscher - Sandman / Dew Fairy

State Opera Choir
Michael Hofstetter - conductor

Katharina Thalbach - stage director

Engelbert Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel
0:00 Ouverture
8:24 Daheim / At home
34:49 Hexenritt / Witch's Ride
39:05 Im Walde / In the woods
55:01 Traum / Dream
1:01:26 Am Ilsenstein / At Ilsenstein

The composer of Hansel and Gretel, Engelbert Humperdinck, was born in Germany in 1854. In the 1890s, his sister, Adelheid Wette, had written a libretto based on the Grimm fairy tale, and asked her brother to set it to music as a Christmas entertainment for her children. Later, Engelbert and Adelheid decided to turn this modest home project into a full-scale opera. Hansel and Gretel, premiered on December 23, 1893 at Weimar, was an instant hit and remains an everlasting masterpiece. The composer Richard Strauss, who was the assistant conductor for the premiere, called it "a masterwork of the first rank."

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