The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel

The Metropolitan Opera's performance of "Hansel and Gretel" features music by Engelbert Humperdinck and is conducted by Thomas Fulton. The Met's storybook production cheerfully evokes a magic world of woodland sprites and candy dreams and yet brings as well the entire apparatus of Wagnerian music and drama to bear on a German fairy tale. This production is sung in English, and features the Metropolitan Opera, Chorus, and Ballet.

Cast: Judith Blegen, Frederica von Stade, Jean Kraft, Michael Devlin, Diane Kesling, Betsy Norden