Movielogr
The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel (1982)
Directed by Kirk Browning, Bruce Donnelly
Overview
The Metropolitan Opera’s performance of “Hansel and Gretel” features music by Engelbert Humperdinck and is conducted by Thomas Fulton. The Met’s storybook production cheerfully evokes a magic world of woodland sprites and candy dreams and yet brings as well the entire apparatus of Wagnerian music and drama to bear on a German fairy tale. This production is sung in English, and features the Metropolitan Opera, Chorus, and Ballet.
Rated G | Length 103 minutes
Actors
Judith Blegen | Frederica von Stade | Jean Kraft | Michael Devlin | Diane Kesling | Betsy Norden | Rosalind Elias | Thomas Fulton | MET Orchestra