When it comes to Christmas-time family fare, there may be no equivalent to The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky’s ballet warhorse. In the world of opera, Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel comes the ...
The little clock at the top of the stage whirrs round madly, the gauze rises on the atmospheric panorama of the German countryside, and we are back in the embrace of Antony McDonald’s inventive ...
Metropolitan Opera audiences have long been accustomed to the traditional take on popular fairy-tale opera "Hansel and Gretel," as exemplified by the company's last production, which was in the ...