Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
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 […]