Review: Engelbert Humperdinck’s music for “Hansel and Gretel” is such an eclectic and cinematic composition that to hear it is to take an evocative ride through your own past.
Heidi Stober and company in"Hansel and Gretel" at Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Like J.K. Rowling, the Brothers Grimm well knew that children would respond better to works that didn’t keep lying about their safety.The idea of an opera about the abandoned kids, the gingerbread house, the Sandman and a cannibalistic witch was suggested to Humperdinck by his sister Adelheid Wette, who wrote the subsequent libretto. The piece requires two adults to play children all night long, not a typical recipe for success.
; the design from John Macfarlane, which squeezes the lonely, hungry kids into a triangular dystopia shorn of any Germanic joviality, recalls Martin McDonagh’s “The Pillowman.”
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