Start the New Year off on a note of happily-ever-after with Pacific Symphony's abridged version of one of the best-known and most-loved fairy-tales-turned-opera, "Hansel and Gretel, Opera for Kids!" ...

Opera San José is launching the holidays with a family-friendly production of Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel that offers treats to go along with this irresistible fairy tale. Kids who ...

You might think an opera based on the Grimms’ fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel” was designed for children. And you would be right. But the singers playing the title characters in San Diego Opera’s ...

Engelbert Humperdinck’s music for “Hansel and Gretel” is such an eclectic and cinematic composition that to hear it is to take an evocative ride through your own past. I variously found myself back in ...

A familiar fairy tale about siblings takes the stage in December when Opera Orlando presents “Hansel and Gretel.” In case your childhood is a hazy memory, let me remind you: Hansel and Gretel are a ...

Perhaps you can’t imagine taking your children to the opera. But this Saturday, all myths about children and opera will vanish when the Main Street Opera performs Hansel and Gretel at the Farmington ...

A little more than a century ago, a handful of Cleveland’s leading women founded The Cleveland Institute of Music. “They believed that if classical music performance was going to be studied at a ...

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Opera Saratoga production of “Hansel and Gretel” is an innovative presentation that can be fully appreciated by every member of the family. In this co-production with ...

was fielding its own evil witch this past weekend with “Hansel & Gretel.” The witch flies through the air — twice — and is blown to bits after the title siblings shove her in the oven. That’s pretty ...