Credits:

Markus L. Frank, Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau

Description:

A poor couple who made brooms had two children: an older brother named Hansel and a younger sister named Gretel. One day, while they were home alone, they failed to do the chores they had been told to do and were severely scolded by their mother. Sent to pick strawberries, the siblings went into the forest and, just as promised, found the gingerbread house built by the witch. Of course, the wicked witch was punished, and the siblings returned to their parents.Hansel and Gretel is a story from the Grimms Fairy Tales that everyone knows. There are probably many older children who still dream of a gingerbread house. Although it is an opera for children, it was composed by Humperdinck (18541921), a student of Wagner. The music is more profound than one might imagine, and as the famous prelude makes clear, it offers a truly rich listening experience. Since it ends