Project Gutenberg 2013-07-24 Public domain in the USA. 529 Humperdinck, Engelbert 1854 1921 Humperdinck, E. (Engelbert) Humperdinck, Englebert Humperdinck, Hengelberg Humperdink, E. (Engelbert) Humperdink, Engelbert Wette, Adelheid 1858 1916 Wette, Adelheid Humperdinck Wette, Adelaide Humperdinck, Adelaide Witty, Adelaide Hänsel and Gretel: A Fairy Opera in Three Acts Hansel und Gretel Produced by Colin Bell, Marc-André Seekamp, Joseph Cooper, The Internet Archive (one page scan). and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Hänsel and Gretel: A Fairy Opera in Three Acts" by Adelheid Wette and with music by Engelbert Humperdinck is a fairy tale opera written in the late 19th century. The opera is based on the classic folk story of the same name, focusing on two children, Hänsel and Gretel, who face a series of challenges after being sent into the woods by their struggling parents. Central themes include hunger, magic, and a confrontation with a witch, capturing both the innocence of childhood and the darker elements of fairy tales. The opening of the opera introduces the difficult circumstances of Hänsel and Gretel, who are busy working at home but are hungry and longing for food. Their mother enters and, angry at their idleness, sends them into the woods to gather strawberries, warning them not to return until their basket is full. Concurrently, their father arrives with good news about selling goods at the fair but is immediately worried about their well-being after learning they have been sent to the dread Ilsenstein, a place known for witches. As tensions rise, we get a glimpse of magical elements with foreboding undertones that set the stage for the children's impending adventures in the forest, paving the way for their confrontations with fear and fantasy. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/43289/43289-h/images/cover.jpg en Operas -- Librettos ML Text Opera Browsing: Music Browsing: Performing Arts/Film 185179 185189 2024-09-18T07:45:14.190393 2023-09-19T03:58:03.663325 text/html text/html 182212 2013-07-27T08:22:14 text/html; charset=utf-8 232786 2013-07-27T08:22:54 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 244757 2024-09-18T07:45:19.041387 application/epub+zip 245826 2024-09-18T07:45:14.868379 application/epub+zip 120260 2024-09-18T07:45:14.505380 application/epub+zip 322417 2024-09-18T07:45:21.756394 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 324276 2024-09-18T07:45:18.695382 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 199267 2022-09-19T17:56:57.047417 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 125105 124937 2024-09-18T07:45:13.205378 2023-09-19T03:58:02.779323 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 124183 2013-07-27T08:21:44 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 44954 2013-07-27T08:22:54 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 124885 2013-07-27T08:21:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 44914 2013-07-27T08:22:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21315 2024-09-18T07:45:21.902330 application/rdf+xml 30030 2024-09-18T07:45:14.602363 image/jpeg 4060 2024-09-18T07:45:14.553374 image/jpeg 233926 2024-09-18T07:45:14.212391 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia