On Christmas Eve day, the Metropolitan Opera offered Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel,” in a production by the Englishman Richard Jones. “Hansel and Gretel” is not just for Christmas; in ...

The little clock at the top of the stage whirrs round madly, the gauze rises on the atmospheric panorama of the German countryside, and we are back in the embrace of Antony McDonald’s inventive ...

It's a genius idea, and the text by King and illustrations by Sendak offer some marvelous moments -- but also some flaws.

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Hansel and Gretel is set to a libretto by Humperdinck’s sister, Adelheid Wette, and follows the adventures of two hungry children who enter an enchanted forest looking for food, only to find ...

MADISON - Madison Lyric Stage, an award-winning, professional theater company serving the Connecticut Shoreline, will present the classic fairytale opera, “Hansel and Gretel,” Oct. 4-13 at the ...

Syracuse Opera Company, with Richard McKee as stage director, conjured up enchantment in the season finale, “Hansel and Gretel,” the fairytale opera Engelbert Humperdinck composed to his sister’s ...

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It’s not every day that an opera singer gets to bring a cannibalistic witch to life. "I lure children into the forest and I cook them into gingerbread cakes and then I eat them. It's delightful," said ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Berks Ballet Theatre will premiere a new ballet, “Hansel & Gretel,” choreographed and directed by ...

I suppose “Hansel and Gretel” is the ultimate trick-or-treat story. Two children find a house made entirely of candy — the ultimate treat — only to discover it’s really a witch’s trick. Just in time ...