Engelbert Humperding: "Haensel and Gretel", Opera 1893
performed in Nagoya Aichi Bunka Center, October 1999
Place and time: In a deep forest at any time
In the small hut in the forest of the poor Peter, his childrenHaensel and Gretel are doing their work. Both are very hungry, so they stop their work and are looking for food. The returning mother Gertrud gets very angry and sends the children in the deep forest to find some strawberries. Meanwhile the father Peter returns from selling his items and asks about the children. He worries about the children in the beginng darkness of the night. The chlidren lost their way and met the house of the witch. She wants to burn and eat them, but ...
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