HÄNSEL UND GRETEL

In the organizer's words:

The poor brother and sister Hansel and Gretel are sent into the forest by their mother to look for berries. Soon the children can no longer find their way out of the forest and have to spend the night in the lonely darkness under the protection of 14 angels, where they finally come across the gingerbread house of the evil crunchy witch.

The story of Hansel and Gretel is probably one of the best-known fairy tales from the collection of the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Engelbert Humperdinck and his librettist Adelheid Wette turned the well-known story into one of the most successful operas of the 20th century. Since its Weimar premiere in 1893, the work has been part of the standard Christmas repertoire of every musical theater and continues to delight young and old alike.