Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD

Hansel and Gretel (2x2)

: 01, 2008

An updated staging of the classic children's fairy tale, re-imagined to a modern, industrialized era. The witch's kitchen is a spic-and-span nightmare, complete with electric appliances, and a gas-range oven with see-through glass doors. One can only hope it is of the self-cleaning variety. Alan Held as Father and Philip Langridge as the witch both stand out here but in the end it lacks charm and the second act just doesn't make much sense.