Hansel and Gretel
Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel
A Children's Opera by Arthur Rackel
Thomas Jefferson Community Theater
125 S. Old Glebe Road Arlington, VA

TUESDAY, October 16 at 10 am
WEDNESDAY, October 17 at 10 am 
THURSDAY, October 18 at 10 am
SUNDAY, October 14 at 2 pm
SATURDAY, October 20 at 4 and 7 pm 

We invite you to download are extensive Teacher's Guide for Hansel and Gretel: (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

Humperdinck's Opera Hansel & Gretel is known throughout the world as the number one  children's opera.  It will be performed not only in Arlington, VA in 2007, but at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City as well.  Kelly Ferjutz writes that "It is wonderfully simplistic and awesomely complex, all at the same time.  Based on a fairy tale by the Grimm Brothers, to music that could have been written by the great Richard Wagner, it easily transports the listener to 'once-upon-a-time-land' where magic is the order of the day."  Although the original fairy tale is rather dark, the operatic version lightens the story, turning it into an adventure.