Hänsel und Gretel - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Hänsel und Gretel

CAST
HÄNSEL
Katarzyna Kuncio / Anna Harvey
GRETEL
Inga-Britt Andersson / Sibylla Duffe / Lavinia Dames / Anke Krabbe
GERTRUD
Romana Noack / Renée Morloc
PETER
Bruno Balmelli / Stefan Heidemann
HEXE
Johannes Preißinger / Morenike Fadayomi / Cornel Frey
SANDMÄNNCHEN
Karina Repova / Daria Muromskaia
TAUMÄNNCHEN
Maria Carla Pino Cury
KINDERCHOR
Düsseldorfer Mädchen- und Jungenchor
ORCHESTER
Düsseldorfer Symphoniker / Duisburger Philharmoniker

Everyone knows the story of the two poor broom-maker’s children who lose their way in the forest and fall into the clutches of the witch Rosina Leckermaul. Humperdinck’s ‘Hänsel und Gretel’ in the staging by Andreas Meyer-Hanno has been a permanent fixture in the Deutsche Oper am Rhein’s repertoire since 1969 and it is impossible to think of New Year without it. But even fairy tales can show their age if they aren’t treated with a care appropriate to its time. Watching habits change, an awareness of colour and light can create new demands and each generation of singers develops its own dynamics of expression that influences its singing and performing style. This is why this cult production was refreshed some years ago in order to preserve its essential vitality.
Vitality also beats through Humperdinck’s music that embeds melodies of a folk-like simplicity in the musical richness of a late romantic orchestral sound and bewitches all the senses. “It is actually a story for children, but we are all children at heart,” the composer is supposed to have said. The audience that has grown up after him – both young people and adults – has proved him right and continues to delight in the broom-maker’s children who have been given a red cape and new shoes and will climb up on the witch’s roof, brave and carefree.

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