San Antonio Current

OPERA San Antonio will open its season with Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairy-tale opera Hansel and Gretel in early October.

The eerie and exciting opera is based on the Brothers Grimm children’s story of the same name. In the opera, siblings Hansel and Gretel become lost in a forest, eventually stumbling upon a gingerbread house, a bounty that seems too good to be true. As it turns out, it is: the pair is captured by a witch, and must fight to escape before she can eat them.

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