Opera
(_Small, poorly furnished room. In the background a door, a small window near it with a view into the forest. On the left a fireplace, with chimney above it. On the walls many brooms of various sizes. Hänsel sits near the door, making brooms, and Gretel opposite him by the fir...
(_who had meanwhile opened the whole door, and had been warily stealing up to the children, throws a rope round the neck of Hänsel, who, without any misgivings, turns his back t...
3. Scene III.O, for you and me, poor mother, every day is like the other; with a big hole in the purse, and in the stomach an even worse. Tralala, tralala! Hunger is the poor man's curse! Tr...
1. Scene I.(_Small, poorly furnished room. In the background a door, a small window near it with a view into the forest. On the left a fireplace, with chimney above it. On the walls many b...
10. Scene IV.The spell is broke and we are free, we'll sing and we'll dance and we'll shout for glee! Come, children all, and form a ring, join hands together while we sing. Then sing and sp...
4. Scene I.(_The curtain rises. The middle of the forest. In the background is the Ilsenstein, thickly surrounded by fir-trees. On the right is a large fir-tree, under which Gretel is sitt...
7. Scene I.(_The curtain rises. Scene the same as the end of Act II. The background is still hidden in mist, which gradually rises during the following. The angels have vanished. Morning i...
2. Scene II.Call you it working, yodelling and singing? As though 'twere fair time, hopping and springing! And while your parents from early morning till late at night are slaving and toili...
8. Scene II.A cottage all made of chocolate cream. The roof is all covered with Turkish delight the windows with lustre of sugar are white; and on all the gables the raisins invite, and thi...
5. Scene II.I shut the children's peepers, sh! and guard the little sleepers, sh! for dearly do I love them, sh! and gladly watch above them, sh! And with my little bag of sand, By every ch...
6. Scene III.(_Here a bright light suddenly breaks through the mist which forthwith rolls itself together into the form of a staircase, vanishing in perspective, in the middle of the stage....