A ‘dream that’s still evolving’
Los Angeles Opera’s new production of the holiday favorite “Hansel and Gretel” by Engelbert Humperdinck includes 12-foot-tall forest creatures and special effects designed by visual artist Douglas Fitch, who also serves as the stage director. Fitch sees the children’s fairy tale as “a collective dream that’s still evolving,” in which adults as well as children must “face what we most fear to grow a step more confident about who we are becoming.”
Alan Gilbert will make his company conducting debut. The work will be sung to a newly commissioned English libretto by Richard Sparks (“Diary of a Mad Poker Player,” “Getting Lucky”), who recently collaborated with composer Lee Holdridge on L.A. Opera’s “Concierto para Mendez.”
“Hansel and Gretel,” Los Angeles Opera, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., L.A., 2 p.m. Sunday. $30 to $220. (213) 972-8001. www.laopera.com
* Also 2 p.m. Nov. 26, Dec. 9 and 17; 7:30 p.m. Nov. 29, Dec. 2, 6 and 14.
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