Hänsel und Gretel im Zauberwald

In the organizer's words:

For young opera fans or those who want to become one, "Hansel and Gretel" is the ideal gateway drug. Logical, because where else can you find children as the title characters, a whole house full of gingerbread and lots of catchy tunes on stage at the same time? Even if not every child today knows "Ein Männlein steht im Walde" or "Suse, liebe Suse": once heard, the melodies are impossible to get out of your head. During the course of the opera, the music immediately reveals whether Hansel and Gretel's father is in a good mood, when it is bedtime or where danger lurks for the two of them. Things get really dicey when they get lost in the forest and come to the crunchy witch. Because she usually bakes small children in her oven for dinner. So that's where all the sugar comes from! Will Gretel and Hansel manage to break the spell and see their parents again?

With the full orchestral sound and stage magic of the original, but in a child-friendly short version, the MiR is presenting a compact version: for daycare groups, school classes or grandparent-grandchild outings.