We commissioned an orchestration, but since we're singing and we don't just want to sing la-la-la, we need words to sing. Hansel & Gretel was originally set in German by Adelheid Wette, who happened to be the sister of the composer, Engelbert Humperdinck (not that Engelbert Humperdinck, more about that later). Because this is an introduction to opera for our community, we thought it would be best to sing in English, so we started looking for a translation. Our conductor suggested contacting the Welsh National Opera and the English National Opera. We did and the Welsh National Opera referred us to David Pountney who was gracious enough to license his libretto to us. You can read about him and his impressive credentials here:
http://www.imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=12&c=2
We are very lucky because it is the same libretto used by the Metropolitan Opera!
Our project becomes more exciting by the day and we are continually astounded at the willingness of great musicians around the world to help us.
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