Hansel und Gretel, Wormsley Estate, High Wycombe by Graham Rogers

Wormsley Estate, High Wycombe: Composed by a one-time assistant to Richard Wagner and hailed as a masterpiece by Richard Strauss (who conducted its 1893 premiere), Engelbert Humperdinck's operatic telling of Hansel and Gretel far transcends its original function as children's entertainment. It certainly entertains, thanks partly to the score's abundance of appealing folk-like melodies, but there is dep…

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