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Scenes from ' HANSEL AND GRETEL '

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A fairy opera by Adelheide Wette
English translation by Constance Bache
Music by Humperdinck
Chorus of children
BBC Theatre Chorus
(Chorus-Master. John Clements )
BBC Theatre Orchestra (Leader, Alfred Barker )
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
Narrator. Mary O'Farrell Repetiteur. Leo Wurmser
The action takes place in the broom-maker's cottage and in the wood near the witch's house

Contributors

Unknown:
Adelheide Wette
Translation By:
Constance Bache
Chorus-Master:
John Clements
Leader:
Alfred Barker
Conducted By:
Stanford Robinson
Narrator:
Mary O'Farrell
Repetiteur:
Leo Wurmser
Hansel:
Norah Gruhn
Gretel:
Lorely Dyer
Their mother:
Monica Warner
Their father, a broom-maker:
Owen Brannigan
The Dew Fairy:
Jean Mountford
The Witch, who eats children:
Elsie Boardman
Source: Radio Times

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