Engelbert Humperdinck - Hänsel & Gretel - Universal/Music/DVD

Ein Klassiker der Operngeschichte. Die Aufnahme stammt aus der New Yorker MET vom Weihnachtsabend 1982 und begeistert seitdem die Kritiker: "Keine Sänger der heutigen Zeit spielen Hänsel und Gretel überzeugender und singen die Rollen brillianter als Frederica von Stade und Judith Blegen" - New York Daily News

01 Opening Credits (Hansel and Gretel)
02 Prelude
03 Suzy, little Suzy, now listen with care
04 All right! And now if you'll stop complaining
05 Hansel, come and dance with me
06 Hansel!" - "Dread! It's mother!
07 Oh, why do they always make me angry?
08 Tra la la la! Mother, now at last I'm here
09 But wait! I don't see the children
10 There's a witch who lives in the wood alone
11 The Witch's Ride
12 Now once upon a time in the wood alone
13 Gretel, I think we're really lost
14 When night comes softly creeping
15 Now I lay me down to sleep
16 Pantomime
17 Prelude
18 I'm wide awake each morning
19 Where am I? Dreaming?
20 Stay there! Don't move!
21 Nibble nibble mousey
22 Scat! You gobbling mousey
23 Brrr! Hocus pocus, witches curse!
24 Now Gretel, you must stay here like that
25 My old broomstick, you must be quick
26 Come, wake up, my little dunce
27 Hurray! We're free, we broke the charm
28 We are safe! We are free!
29 Tra la la la! I can't believe they'd come this far!
30 Closing Credits (Hansel and Gretel)

"Libretto" by Adelheid Wette

"Musik"
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus und Ballet
Chorus Master: David Stivender
Conductor: Thomas Fulton