Irmgard Vilsmaier, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Michael Hoffstetter, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Antigone Papoulkas & Iris Vermillion

Humperdinck - Hänsel und Gretel

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Artist: Irmgard Vilsmaier, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Michael Hoffstetter, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Antigone Papoulkas & Iris Vermillion - Soloist: Irmgard Vilsmaier, Anna Gabler , Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Iris Vermillon, Lydia Teuscher & Antigone Papoulkas - Producer: EuroArts Music International & ZDF/Arte - Conductor: Michael Hoffstetter - Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck - Orchestra: Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Semperoper, Dresden | 107 min | 2006 | TV-PG

Humperdinck - Hänsel und Gretel

Recorded at the Semperoper Dresden in 2006, the orchestra of the Sächsische Staatskapelle is directed by Michael Hofstetter in a production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel. Soloists are Irmgard, Vilsmaier, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Antigone Papoulkas and Iris Vermillion. The composer of Hansel and Gretel, Engelbert Humperdinck, wrote was born in Germany in 1854. In the 1890s, his sister, Adelheid Wette, had written a libretto based on the Grimm fairy tale, and asked her brother to set it to music as a Christmas entertainment for her children. Later, Engelbert and Adelheid decided to turn this modest home project into a full-scale opera. Hansel and Gretel, premiered on December 23, 1893 at Weimar, was an instant hit and remains an everlasting masterpiece. The composer Richard Strauss, who was the assistant conductor for the premiere, called it "a masterwork of the first rank."

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