The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel

Name: The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel
Director: Bruce Donnelly
Released: 1982-12-01
Duration: 103 min
Cast: Judith Blegen, Frederica von Stade, Jean Kraft, Michael Devlin, Diane Kesling

December 1, 1982

1h 43m

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.