Word: hanseler
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...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...
Last week in Philadelphia the Woman's Christian Temperance Union demanded that the Civic Opera Company remove from its Hansel production the inebriate father whose shortcomings are so clearly shown to be of evil consequence. The Woman's Executive Committee of the Civic Opera Company held a conclave, unanimously passed a motion to ignore the Temperance Union's protest. Said Mrs. Henry M. Tracy, president of the Company: "It is perfectly idiotic and shows the lack of knowledge on the part of members of the W. C. T. U. of opera. For even if we wished...
...Revival. Altogether charming was the performance of Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel. Queen Mario was Gretel, a wee child with pigtails stiff as taffy sticks. Editha Fleisher was Hansel, just ragged and happy. There was a real witch with matted gray hair and a nose like a spigot who rode on her broomstick way into the sky and ate little children. There was a gingerbread house and a red-hot oven where plop ended the witch pushed by wee Gretel just too stupid to get in herself. "Hocus pocus. . . ." Children loved it. So did grown-ups who quite forgot...
...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...
...operas: Turandot, to open the season Oct. 31, with Maria Jeritza & Giacomo Lauri-Volpi; Korngold's Violanta, the first novelty, also with Jeritza, Nov. 5; on the same afternoon, Hansel und Gretel; Gioconda, to open the Philadelphia season Nov. 1, with Rosa Ponselle & Beniamino Gigli...