Event listing: Hänsel und Gretel | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Event is in the past

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Royal Opera House, Covent GardenBow Street, Covent Garden, London, Greater London, WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom

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Programme

Humperdinck, Engelbert (1854-1921)

Libretto by Adelheid Wette

Performers

The Royal Opera
Sebastian Weigle	Conductor
Antony McDonald	Director, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Isabella McGuire Mayes	Dancer
Hanna Hipp	Mezzo-soprano	Hänsel
Jennifer Davis	Soprano	Gretel
James Rutherford	Bass	Peter / Father	2018 Dec 11 mat, 17, 21 mat, 27, 29 mat
Eddie Wade	Baritone	Peter / Father	2018 Dec 13
Michaela Schuster	Mezzo-soprano	Gertrude / Mother
Gerhard Siegel	Tenor	Witch
Christina Gansch	Soprano	Dew Fairy
Haegee Lee	Soprano	Sandman

Reviews of Hänsel und Gretel directed by Antony McDonald

****1

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, December 2024

**111

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, December 2023

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A classic executed with style: Hänsel und Gretel

David Karlin, 14th December

Designer/director Antony McDonald treads a perfectly weighted path between light and dark of the fairytale; conductor Sebastian Weigle cooks up a Wagnerian storm; Michaela Schuster steals the show. A treat.

****1

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Reviews of Hänsel und Gretel directed by Antony McDonald