The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Judith Blegen Gretel

Frederica von Stade Hansel

Jean Kraft Gertrude

Michael Devlin Peter

Diane Kesling The Sandman