Entries from 2019-01-01 to 1 month

Hansel and Gretel as an opera by Engelbert Humperdinck with libretto by Adelheid Wette

Hansel and Gretel is a widely popular fairy tale about two kids, their incompetent parents and a witch in the woods. It inspired numerous artistic works and Engelbert Humperdinck's opera is just one of them. The libretto of the opera was w…

A frog he would a wooing go by Henry Louis Stephens

A frog he would a wooing go / Frog Went A-courting This old folk song is telling a simple and playful story with a tragic end. There's a frog who wants to marry a mouse. Together with a rat, his friend, they visit Miss Mousey. Everything l…