The Saturday matinee broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera on January 2 will be Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck. Classic 99.1 KFUO-FM will carry the broadcast beginning at 12:00 noon (CT). Running time will be approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes.
Vivien Schweitzer reviewed the Met's production in the December 16, 2009, edition of the New York Times. Here's the first paragraph:
Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera Hansel and Gretel, the familiar story of hunger, kidnapping, cannibalism and witch burning, is perhaps a strange work to have become a Christmas staple. Richard Jones’s deliciously dark production, which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday, doesn’t tone down the less savory aspects of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale that inspired it.
Click here to read the entire review.
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