Hänsel and Gretel

by Engelbert Humperdinck

Seventy-five years since the first Florentine performance, the masterpiece by the German composer based on the popular folk tale by the Brothers Grimm finally returns. In a curious contemporary setting, we will relive the adventures of the two protagonists grappling with giant animated puppets. sweets distributors, and machines for making sugared almonds. A legend of belcanto, and of the Rossini-renaissance, the tenor Chris Merritt will appear as the Gingerbread Witch in a mysterious disguise, to be revealed!

Sung in Italian with surtitles

Artists

Conductor
Farhad G. Mahani / Nikolas Nägele (10)

Direction

Gianmaria Aliverta

Scenes
Alessia Colosso

Costumes
Gianmaria Aliverta
Simone Martini

Light design
Adriana Renna

Assistant director and special figurant
Luisa Travaglini

Choir director
Lorenzo Fratini

Maggio Children's Choir

Orchestra of the Conservatory “Luigi Cherubini” of Florence

Hänsel
Veta Pilipenko / Ana Victoria Pitts (4, 6, 9, 11, 13)

Gretel
Eleonora Bellocci / Francesca Longari (4, 6, 9, 11, 13)

Il Padre
Qianming Dou / Dario Shikhmiri (4, 6, 9, 11, 13)

La Madre
Eunhee Kim

Knusperhexe (Gingerbread witch)
Antonella Carpenito / Chris Merritt (5, 6, 9, 12, 13)

Sandmann
Dioklea Hoxha / Paolo Anziliero (4, 8, 10, 11)

Repetiteurs
Fabio Maggio
Nikolas Nägele
Chiara Pulsoni
Bojie Yin

Season 2015/16

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