Hansel and Gretel
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 24, 2007
Closed Jan 31, 2008
Opened Dec 24, 2007
Closed Jan 31, 2008
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Running Time:
2hr. 10min.
2hr. 10min.
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Most fairy tales, though charming on the outside, have darker underpinnings. Alice Coote and Christine Schäfer play the siblings lost in a shadowy world of unknown menace, pursued by the Witch (portrayed by tenor Philip Langridge) who seeks to devour them. The English-language production of Engelbert Humperdinck's masterful treatment of the beloved story by the Brothers Grimm is the second in the Met's annual series of special holiday presentations.
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Richard Jones won London's 1990 Olivier award for directing the first British production of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine Into the Woods, and a stunningly iconoclastic treatment it was. So it made sense for the Welsh National Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago to turn to Jones for a version of Engelbert Humperdinck's sometimes jolly, sometimes moody Hansel and Gretel, which has now arrived at the Metropolitan Opera as this year's family offering.
But what the decision makers didn't seem to consider is that while the Sondheim-Lapine work represents a post-modern take on fairy tales, Hansel and Gretel doesn't call for the kind of revisionist view that Jones and sets and costumes desig[...]