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5 days ago · Premiered in 1893, Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel is based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Sent into the forest in search of strawberries to feed their hungry family, Hänsel and Gretel discover a gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked witch with an appetite for children.
5 days ago · Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to “The Three Little Pigs,” “Hansel and Gretel,” and “The Sleeping Beauty,” Bettelheim shows how the fantastical, sometimes cruel, but always deeply significant narrative strands of the classic fairy tales can aid in our greatest human task, that of finding ...
5 days ago · UAF Opera Workshop: Hansel & Gretel First performed December 1893, Humperdinck’s opera Hansel and Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) retells the well known fairy-tale. When Hansel and Gretel find themselves lost in the forest, they stumble upon a house made of gingerbread. Unable to resist temptation, the siblings begin eating the house only to be captured by the witch who lives there. The ...
5 days ago · Medieval Europe was no stranger to the horrors of famine. In The Old Magic of Christmas, Linda Raedisch mentions the theory that "Hansel and Gretel" was inspired by the Great Famine of 1315–1317. While it's impossible to point to a specific famine and say "Yep, that's the one this story comes from!
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3 days ago · Hansel und Gretel Vienna State Opera No. of reviews: 13: Straussian performance of Hänsel und Gretel from Thielemann and Vienna Opera. 7 Dec 15 / Seen and Heard:
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