Hansel and Gretel are alone in their house in the forest. They are dancing happily when their mother returns and scolds them for neglecting their chores. Hansel spills the milk meant for dinner, and so their angry mother chases the children out into the forest to pick strawberries. When their father returns home, he is horrified to learn that his children are wandering alone in the forest where a witch dwells. Hansel and Gretel lose their way, spending the night in the hollow of a tree trunk protected by their guardian angels. In the morning, they spy a tempting gingerbread house, on which they start to gorge themselves. The witch who owns the house appears and takes them prisoner. Hansel is locked in a cage, while Gretel is destined to be cooked in the oven but outsmarts the witch, who eventually ends up in the flames of her own furnace. Not only do the two children escape, but all the witch’s earlier victims come back to life: shedding their covering of gingerbread, they become flesh-and-blood children once again.
The plot of Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera adapts the fairytale by the Brothers Grimm. Under the direction of Sylvie Gabor, one of the most popular fairytale operas of all time will be staged so that the audience can not only get to know the story itself, but also the circumstances of its staging.

Age: 10-14 year

Presented by: Palace of Arts