Engelbert Humperdinck's enduring fairy-tale opera, starring Dawn Upshaw and Jennifer Larmore , provides a seasonal favourite. Lost in the forest, two children stumble upon the sweetmeat cottage of a wicked witch. They are lured inside, and Hansel seems destined to be served for tea. But Gretel manages to get the witch into the oven instead of Hansel; she is baked to gingerbread and, her evil spell broken. all the children she has captured in the past and turned into gingerbread come back to life. Sung in English.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, conductor Andrew Davis
Act
7.35 Two Brothers Named Grimm
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm travelled the length and breadth of Europe collecting tales of wonder from the lips of peasants. Or is that a fairy tale too? Who were the Grimm brothers, and how did they come to create their world-famous tales?
Michael Rosen 's search for the truth takes him to Kassel, where he visits the Grimm Museum , and to the Braider Grimm restaurant, where the waitresses tell you fairy stories while serving your Sleeping Beauty Breakfast.
Repeat
8.05 Act 2
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