COMPOSERS: Humperdinck
LABELS: DG
WORKS: Hänsel und Gretel
PERFORMER: Frederica Von Stade, Judith Blegen, Jean Kraft; Metropolitan Opera/Fulton
CATALOGUE NO: DG 073 4348
Nathaniel Merrill’s 1982 English-language staging is traditional but lively, Frederica Von Stade and Judith Blegen the top-quality kids and Rosalind Elias the scary-comic Witch. George Hall