Word: gretel
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...when his yellow-haired sister saved him with the wave of a magic juniper-branch and a hocus-pocus formula, when together they pushed the witch into the oven stoked for them. For children no moment of the performance approaches this supreme one in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel...
...events as operatic premieres. It was the them-grown-ups last week who appeared most impressed by the first U. S. performance of Maurice Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges (A Naughty Boy's Dream), also written for children and given on a double bill with Hansel und Gretel. They were importantly aware that Ravel is considered the foremost contemporary French composer. Some had heard him two years ago with the San Francisco Symphony, knew his suave, mocking Valse, his lovely Mother-Goose Suite, his high-powered Bolero. Prepared to be charmed, they watched the unfolding of his latest...
...went to see the opera Hansel & Gretel when this problem was still unsettled in my mind." he snapped excitedly last week. "My eye was taken by the quaint fantastic fairyland gingerbread house on the stage. The thought struck me, 'just the thing!' Something like that for the children on the old cement kiln across the courtyard from the mill. I went to see the decorator Joseph Urban who designs the stage settings for the Metropolitan Opera, and he's been hard at work on this Gingerbread House of mine for two years. It cost...
...children familiar with fairy tales are aware that Hansel and Gretel's father was a good-for-nothing. All fortunate enough to have been taken to Engelbert Humperdinck's opera know that he makes his entrance dancing a jig, brandishing a bottle. Because of him, Hansel and Gretel are raggedy, hard-working children who must search the woods for strawberries, thus falling into the clutches of a horrid old witch who comes near to eating them...
...buts. In Die Meistersinger, Crete Stiickgold from the Berlin Staatsoper was Eva, comely, pleasing. Richard Mayr (Vienna Staatsoper) was a dignified, experienced Pogner whose voice had seen better days. Dorothee Manski (Berlin Staatsoper) was the witch in Hansel und Gretel, a blathering old woman with small time to sing. Philine Falco in La Forza del Destino, Mildred Parisette in Violanta and Hansel, Margaret Bergen in the Sunday night concert, had small opportunities...