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Friday : 16 May 2008
Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck)
Conductor : Thomas Rosner (30 May - 13 June)
Director : Richard Jones Revival Director: Benjamin Davis
Designer : John Macfarlane Lighting Designer: Jennifer Tipton Assistant Director / Choreographer: Linda Dobell

Sung in English with surtitles

Approximate duration 2 hours 15 minutes

Gruesome, macabre and wickedly funny, WNO's Olivier Award-winning Hansel & Gretel subverts the classic fairytale.

To play the trailer of this acclaimed production click the Play Video link on the left.

Cardiff, Wales Millennium Centre - Friday 30 May & Friday 13 June at 7.15pm and matinee on Sunday 8 June at 4pm

Birmingham Hippodrome - Friday 20 June at 7.15pm

Venture into the woods and a mysterious world, full to the brim with beautiful, dreamlike sequences and characters from the magical to the grotesque.
 
Humperdinck's gorgeous and opulent music provides a delightfully bitter-sweet contrast to an underlying haunting and sinister tale.  A powerful cast includes Grammy-Award winning Rebecca Evans as Gretel and Graham Clark as the monstrous witch.
 
This is your chance to see a truly theatrical event that has already wowed the critics.

 
Cast includes Rebecca Evans (Gretel), Cora Burggraaf (Hansel), Mary Lloyd  Davies (Mother), Eddie Wade (Father) & Graham Clark (Witch)

"Remarkable...promises to imprint itself indelibly" THE GUARDIAN

"A brilliant and bloody feast you won't forget in a hurry" THE SUNDAY TIMES

" A fairytale for grownups." THE FINANCIAL TIMES


 

 
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