Backstage at Lyric #128 -- Discovery Series: Hansel and Gretel - - Chartable

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Backstage at Lyric #128 -- Discovery Series: Hansel and Gretel

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We all know the children's story of two kids getting lost in the woods and happening upon a witch who lives in a gingerbread house. But the opera, especially this production, goes much deeper into the characters and their motivations. Elizabeth DeShong (Hansel), Maria Kanyova (Gretel), and general director Anthony Freud give you the what's-what on this late-Romantic classic.

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