By Engelbert Humperdinck
A revival of the 2008 Festival Production
Sung in German with English supertitles
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With its familiar fairy-tale story, feel-good ending and magical mix of
simple folk tunes and rich Wagnerian textures, Humperdinck’s Hänsel
und Gretel has long cast its musical spell over both adults and children
alike. Laurent Pelly’s deliciously witty 2008 production with an
underlying subtext of modern consumerism, sees the broom-maker’s
two outcast children lose their way in the enchanted forest before
finding themselves in every hungry child’s dream.
Glyndebourne on Tour’s current Music Director, Robin Ticciati,
conducted this production on Tour in 2008, shortly before conducting
the opera again for his Covent Garden debut. Now Principal
Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, he returns to
Glyndebourne to conduct a largely new cast, led by the British mezzo
Alice Coote (who made her Festival debut as Nero in L’incoronazione
di Poppea in 2008) and the young German soprano Lydia Teuscher
(here making her UK opera debut) as the two innocent children, with
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke reprising his role as the witch.
Performance schedule Festival 2010
Key
* = Pre-performance talk available in the in the Ebert Room.
# = Family Ticket Available
% = Family Workshop
Creative team
Conductor Robin Ticciati
Director Laurent Pelly
Revival Director Stéphane Marlot
Set Designer Barbara de Limburg Stirum
Costume Designer Laurent Pelly
Lighting Designer Joël Adam
Cast
Hänsel Alice Coote
Gretel Lydia Teuscher
Mother Irmgard Vilsmaier
Father William Dazeley
Witch Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke
The Sandman Tara Erraught
Dew Fairy Ida Falk Winland
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Glyndebourne Chorus