Name: Humperdinck: Hansel And Gretel
Start: 2024-02-02T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-02-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Joe Byrd Hall

Admin

Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University

Conductor

Ryo Hasegawa

Stage director

Mary Duncan

Orchestra

Peabody Symphony Orchestra

Humperdinck: Hansel And Gretel

Johns Hopkins Homewood

United States

John Hopkins University

Hopkins Bloomberg Center

Annapolis

Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts

Philadelphia

Joe Byrd Hall

Public

Private

Hansel and Gretel (arr. Nicholas Hersh)

Larissa Andrea Pereira

Approved

For its mid-winter production, Peabody Opera Theatre stages and tours a family-friendly version of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. In 2022 Peabody commissioned arranger and conductor Nicholas Hersh and librettist Laura Fuentes to update the 19th-century opera version of the German fairy tale, resulting in a roughly 45-minute jazz-orchestration version, in English, wherein siblings Hansel and Gretel navigate living in a city with extreme wealth inequality, but also candy, humor, a brightly costumed witch, and a happy ending.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble