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unusual facts about Hänsel und Gretel



Francesca Catalano

Francesca has appeared in productions of Oliver!, Fiddler on the Roof, and Evita and also appeared, and sang, in a few operas, including Les Misérables, Carmen and Hänsel und Gretel.

Kai Rüütel

The pair met while working on Scottish Opera's production of Hänsel und Gretel in 2011/12, and were married at Sagadi Manor in Estonia in August 2013.

Ruth Kobart

-- not Finkelstein, this is a commonly accepted mistake --> in Des Moines, Iowa, Kobart studied opera at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago and made her professional debut as the Witch in an off-Broadway production of Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel.


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Elio Battaglia

Battaglia’s teaching was so influential that for the 1991-1992 opera season’s opening night at Teatro Regio in Torino, Conductor Maurizio Benini cast Humperdinck’s “Hansel und Gretel” entirely from Battaglia’s studio of singers.