The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel (1982)
Music
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 as Gretel
- Frederica von Stade as Hansel
- Jean Kraft as Gertrude
- Michael Devlin as Peter
- Diane Kesling as The Sandman
- Betsy Norden as The Dew Fairy
- Rosalind Elias as The Witch
- Thomas Fulton as Self - Conductor
- MET Orchestra