Evening Prayer from Hansel and Gretel for Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
Edited by Roger Nichols
by Engelbert Humperdinck
Choir - Sheet Music

SM choir and piano

SKU: PE.EP7695

Edited by Roger Nichols. Composed by Engelbert Humperdinck. Edited by Roger Nichols. Vocal Duets/Trios. Edition Peters. Opera. Score. 12 pages. Edition Peters #98-EP7695. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP7695).

ISBN 9790577084657. Language: German/English.

A firm favourite with singers of all ages, this simple but moving duet is now attractively presented in this new edition.

Hansel and Gretel is one of the most-performed operas ever written - within a year of its premiere in Weimar in 1893 it had been performed 50 times in Germany alone.

The story

In Act I Hansel and Gretel have annoyed their Mother by dancing when they should have been making brooms and knitting. In her anger the Mother knocks over the jug of milk, the only food in the house. She sends the children out into the nearby forest to pick strawberries, but when the Father returns he is horrified, because this is where the Witch lives in her gingerbread cottage.

He and the Mother go out to find their Children. In Act II, after the children have picked and then eaten the strawberries, a mist arises and, when it clears, there is the Sandman, a smallgrey figure with a sack on his back. He throws sand in their eyes and, after they saytheir evening prayer, they fall asleep in each other's arms. After the prayer, the mistdescends again and turns into a magic staircase, down which comes the fourteen angels of whom they sang, to surround them and keep them safe through the night.