Hansel and Gretel

This fairytale opera is perfect for a special family trip that brings together children, parents and grandparents as well as opera enthusiasts and novices. With wit, warmth and a keen sense for children's eyes, this production tells of courage, brotherly love and the power of solidarity. When good prevails in the end, there remains a sense of comfort, confidence and that fairytale magic that unites generations.

Engelbert Humperdinck's opera classic is an experience for everyone who loves the fairytale — moving, exciting and full of wonder. His colorful music takes you into a world of magic and emotional depth and invites young and old alike to marvel, laugh and cheer together.

In the imaginative production by Dagmar Manzel, the famous opera becomes a vivid dreamscape in which play and seriousness, fear and poetry are closely intertwined. Dancing trees, mysterious forest creatures and the lively witch house of the crunchy witch Rosina Leckermaul make the forest a place of wonder.

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