Jan 01 Blog Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel Christine Rice as Hansel, Robert Brubaker as the Witch, and Aleksandra Kurzak as Gretel in Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel.” Photo: Cory Weaver/Metropolitan Opera Returning for the holidays, this season’s family entertainment is Richard Jones’s witty production of Humperdinck’s fairy-tale opera Hansel and Gretel conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, in which two children face off against […] By Daniel Gilliam Jan 01 Blog Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel By Daniel Gilliam