the snake slithering through picturesque porticoes and Baba Yaga’s house mounted atop chicken legs, my favourite was definitely Hansel and Gretel’s cottage. Photo: The Olive Press Amongst ...

Macabre and spectacular, this is Christmas fare as it once was and should still be, fully trusting its audience.

The little clock at the top of the stage whirrs round madly, the gauze rises on the atmospheric panorama of the German ...

In this performance from Christmas Day, 1982, Thomas Fulton conducts Frederica von Stade (Hansel) and Judith Blegen (Gretel) ...

It is heartening to see so many children in the audience for this second revival of Antony McDonald’s 2018 production of Hansel and Gretel (sung in Kelley Rourke’s translation, first heard in ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with a festive performance from Christmas Day, 1982: "Hansel and Gretel" by Engelbert ...

A scene from Hansel and Gretel Credit: Tristram Kenton It is in the woodland of the second act that McDonald’s fantasy works best. I thought some of the references might be obscure, but my ...

This Christmassy production is trying to have its gingerbread and eat it too - and loses some of Humperdinck's musical magic ...

Renner stars alongside Bond girl Gemma Arterton in Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, the 2013 fairytale horror film that follows the duo of Hansel and Gretel, modern-day witch hunters who stumble ...

Hansel and Gretel, based on the story by the Brothers Grimm, is an opera which successfully bridges the generation gap. Elijah Moshinsky's critically acclaimed, wittily updated english production ...

This Hansel and Gretel is all fun and games until it isn’t anymore. A tongue-in-cheek sing-song opening by an “usher” (Jenni Maitland, acting as narrator throughout) leads the way into the ...

And of the hundreds of stories they collected, few are more enduring, enchanting and terrifying than Hansel and Gretel. Mixing wish-fulfilment (a house made of sweets!) with horror (a cannibal ...