Engelbert Humperdinck - Hansel and Gretel

Author: Hofstetter

Brand: EUROARTS

Format: Classic

Release date: 04-04-2007

Details: "Works" Engelbert Humperdinck - Hansel and Gretel "Interpreters" Hansel - Antigone Papoulkas Gretel - Anna Gabler Father - Hans-Joachim Ketelsen Mother - Irmgard Vilsmaier Crunchy Witch - Iris Vermillion Sandman / Dewman - Lydia Teuscher "Music" Women's and Children's Choir of the Saxon State Opera Dresden Chorus Master: Andreas Heinze Saxon State Orchestra Dresden Conductor: Michael Hofsteller "Recording" Semperoper Dresden, 13 & 15 December 2006 "Engelbert Humperdinck - Hansel and Gretel" As the composer's commentary on the overture suggests, it is a play about "children's lives," a life-threatening test that the children must endure beyond the clear-eyed logic of adulthood. In Katharina Thalbach's production, this afterlife clearly takes its place in the realm of shadows. Like the title characters in the prologue, a rather confused Grimm fairytale world also appears in the Witch's Ride, the orchestral prelude to the second scene. After the children's victory over the gingerbread witch, who, between siren-like coquettishness and abysmal ugliness, teaches them to fear their own desires and fears, the sophisticated circular structure of Thalbach's interpretation becomes apparent. Instead of joining in the raucous joy of their jubilant parents' reunion, Hansel and Gretel sneak back into the liberated paradise of the fairytale world of shadows, so that together with the strange figures of their and our children's sound world, they can continually jeopardize the reality of their own lives, thoughts and dreams with the means of their imagination.

UPC: 880242558886

EAN: 0880242558886

Languages: German

Binding: DVD

Article note: Archival goods played 1-2 times, booklet also absolutely new, shipping from Germany

Item Condition: Used - Very Good