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Live from the Met HD continues in January with two productions screening in Nashville

By Christine Anne Piesyk | December 29, 2007 |

On the heels of a stunning production of Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet, HD Live from the Met will launch the New Year with an international high definition broadcast of Englebert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel on January 1, 2008. The curtain rises promptly at noon in two Nashville Regal Theaters: Green Hills and Opry Mills.

Most fairy tales, though charming on the outside, have darker underpinnings. Alice Coote and Christine Schäfer play the siblings lost in a shadowy world of unknown menace, pursued by the Witch (portrayed by tenor Philip Langridge) who seeks to devour them. The English-language production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s masterful treatment of the beloved story by the Brothers Grimm is the second in the Met’s annual series of special holiday presentations.The Metropolitan Opera has cast Christine Schafer as Gretel, Alice Coote as Hansel, and Rosalind Plowright as Gertrude. Vladimir Jurowski conducts.

In this version, the two children are left home alone; they haven’t done their chores, and they are hungry. Their mother returns and shoos them into the woods. In the forest, the children gather berries, become lost and fall asleep, dreaming of angels. They awake to see a Gingerbread House, and a witch who wants to fatten them up, but the children turn the tables on her, push her into the oven just before they are found and rescued by their worried parents.

For tickets, call Regal Cinemas at Green Hills Mall at 615 269 5910 (address: 3815 Green Hills Village Drive, Nashville) or Opry Mills at 615-5143462 (address: 570 Opry Mills Drive, Nashville)

About Christine Anne Piesyk

With 40 years behind me (Huh? What? How did that happen?) as a journalist, feature writer, investigative reporter, editor, and film/theater/arts critic, I brought my liberal New England activism to Tennessee several years ago. having completed a midlife undergraduate degree in community organizing and women's studies, and an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts. I am currently an MFA student at Goddard College. I served on Future Search Commissions for two colleges and an issue-specific commission for the City of Northampton, MA, and did minor undergraduate work in studies in urban planning and community development. I am a community volunteer and a member of FreeThinkers for Peace and Civil Liberties. I am a certified storm spotter. In my spare time (define spare time please?) I am a voracious reader, obsessive movie buff, classical music junkie; I also and design and make sci-fi/fantasy and renaissance costumes. I have an unquenchable interest in just about everything. I see life as an ongoing opportunity for learning and adventure, with the best things still to come. All posts by Christine Anne Piesyk as presented on Clarksville Online are copyright ©2006, 2007 to the author.

Email: womanspeak@yahoo.com

Sections: Arts and Leisure
Topics: Arts, Englebert Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel. opera, Live from the Met, Metropolitan Opera

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