Category: Opera for children
Language: French
Running times: 1h20 (no intermission)
Premiered: Lyon, 1995
New production: 9 February 2019
Gretel et Hansel © Stefan Brion
Stage and music director: Sarah Koné • Choreography: Christine Bonneton • Set designer: Roberta Chiarito • Costume designer: Lucie Guillemet • Lighting designer: Sébastien Böhm • Sound designer: Aline Morel
Director of Artistic Coordination, Production and Development
In a few words
Gretel and Hansel are two cheerful children, despite their parents' poverty. While picking strawberries, they get lost in the forest where a witch lives... with a terrible appetite.
Concept
The famous Grimm's tale inspired Humperdinck, an emulator of Wagner, to create a fairy tale opera that is still very popular in Germany. This classic of the repertoire, adapted and lightened, will seduce the audience, all generations included, thanks to its translation into French and its interpretation by the young artists of the Maîtrise Populaire of the Opéra-Comique.
Press review
“Sarah Koné is always as precise as flexible, as didactic as playful.”
Olyrix,16 February 2019, Charles Arden
Cast
Number of Principals: 7 + 7 members of the choir
Children’s choir : 28 children from Maîtrise Populaire de l’Opéra-Comique
Extras: 2
Instrumentation
6
1 flute, 1 clarinet, 1 cor, 1 violin, 1 cello, 1 piano
Volume of the production
Set and props ½ container
Other info
Last performed: 2019, Opéra-Comique
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