Hansel and GretelAn Opera

by Engelbert Humperdinck

Synopsis• A synopsis is a brief summary

of the plot of a story

• If you had to sum up the story of “Hansel and Gretel”, what would you say?

Setting/Where/When• Setting- The Black Forest

• Where- Southwest Germany• When- 19th Century

Characters• Hansel

• Gretel

• Mother

• Father

• Witch

• Angel

• Dew Fairy

• Sandman

Problem• Hansel and Gretel are punished

and sent into the woods where an evil witch lives that bakes children into gingerbread!

Action

• Father and Mother go off in the forest to look for Hansel and Gretel

Solution• Hansel and Gretel escape doom

by shoving the evil witch into the oven, and baking her!

PLOT- Act 1Hansel and Gretel are caught dancing and singing by their motherAs a punishment, they must go to the woods to collect berriesFather is terrified and angry when he tells mother of a witch that lives in the woods who bakes children into gingerbread to eat!

PLOT- Act 2• Hansel and Gretel lose their

way in the forest as night falls• The Sandman, and Angels

appear to protect them from harm as they sleep

• The Dew Fairy awakens them in the morning when they stumble upon a Gingerbread house!

PLOT- Act 3• Hansel and Gretel begin to eat the

Gingerbread house that belongs to the witch!

• The witch feeds the children to fatten them up, and puts Hansel in a cage

• Hansel and Gretel escape and push the witch into the oven to bake her!

• Father and Mother are reunited with the children