Hansel and Gretel

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entrance see: https://www.mittelsaechsisches-theater.de/spielplan/haensel-und-gretel-253

Probably the most popular fairytale opera, the first opera experience for many children and at the same time a musical treat for connoisseurs. Engelbert Humperdinck, a pupil and assistant of Richard Wagner, succeeded in combining seemingly irreconcilable opposites: a familiar fairy tale plot with melodies that live on as children's songs and a sophisticated, multi-coloured orchestral sound, grand opera with romantic natural atmospheres and dramatic human conflicts. And, as in many fairy tales, the good dreams finally gain the upper hand over the bad ones, and childlike imagination and a thirst for adventure triumph over hardship and poverty.