Topic: Engelbert Humperdinck

As up-and-down days go, Hansel and Gretel take the cake.. . And the gingerbread cottage.. . In Engelbert Humperdinck's operatic telling of the...

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Power and pantomine for Hansel and Gretel

When Glyndebourne Festival Opera makes its annual Proms visit, directors and designers have to be prepared to drop some of the ideas thought up just for Glyndebourne. In the case of Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, there were even some theatrical ...

Glyndebourne comes to city

There will be no rolling Sussex countryside, but big-screen relays of operas from Glyndebourne will offer the 18th-century courtyard of Somerset House as an elegant backdrop this weekend.. The three operas are Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd, The Rake's Progress by ...

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Sprechstimme

Its introduction is especially associated with the composer Arnold Schoenberg, who first used it in his Pierrot Lunaire (1912). It had been used earlier, however, in the melodrama Konigskinder (1897; Children of the King), by Engelbert Humperdinck.