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Hansel and Gretel

Name: Hansel and Gretel
Start: 2025-12-30T18:00:00
Location: Staatstheater Mainz

Staatstheater Mainz

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Engelbert Humperdinck was actually only supposed to set to music a few passages from the fairytale play Hansel and Gretel , which his sister Adelheid Wette had written for a family performance. However, on the enthusiastic advice of his relatives, the small project developed first into a singspiel and finally into a full-length opera about the story of the siblings Hansel and Gretel. Growing up in poverty, their mother sends them into the forest ...

Program

Engelbert Humperdinck - Hansel and Gretel

Composer

Participants

Brett Carter

Peter, Broommaker (father)

Julietta Aleksanyan

Gretel

Alexander Spemann

Knusperhexe

Maren Schwier

Gretel