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Hansel and Gretel

on BBC Two England

A fairy-tale opera by ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK
Adapted by ADELHEID WETTE from the Grimm Brothers' version of the traditional tale and sung in an English translation by NORMAN KELLEY starring
Ann Howard as the Witch
Elizabeth Connell as the Mother Benjamin Luxon as the Father with Patricia Parker as Hansel Elizabeth Gale as Gretel
An enchanting new television version of Humperdinck's opera in which Hansel and Gretel are lost in a wood, terrorised by flying hobgoblins, befriended by a Sandman and transported down a magic river to the Land of Cobwebs and Sugar Ice, where the Witch ensnares them . , ,
David Lloyd-Jones conducts the New Philharmonia Orchestra leader CARL PINI
Children from Whitgift School, Dr Challoner's Grammar School and Finchley Children's Music Group
Associate-conductor ANTHONY HOSE Choreographer BOB HOWE Costume JOHN BLOOMFIELD Sound RAYMUND ANCEL
RICHARD CHUBB, MIKE JONES Lighting BILL MILLAR Designer KEN SHARP
Producer BRIAN LARGE
The opera is presented without interval and broadcast simultaneously on Radio 3

Contributors

Translation By:
Norman Kelley
Unknown:
Ann Howard
Unknown:
Elizabeth Connell
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Mother Benjamin Luxon
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Patricia Parker
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Hansel Elizabeth Gale
Unknown:
David Lloyd-Jones
Leader:
Carl Pini
Unknown:
Bob Howe
Unknown:
Millar Designer Ken
Sandman:
Susan Lees
Dew Fairy:
Joy Roberts

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