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Production Dates

December 19, 7 pm

December 21, 2 pm

Greer Auditorium

Wesley L. Black Fine Arts Center

Central Christian College

McPherson, Kansas

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Production Personnel

Director: Diane Machin

Assistant Director: Zhengying "Elaine" Huang, Arthi Nandakumar

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Music Director/Conductor: Stephan Gomez, Oliver Yan

Pianist-Coaches: Maggie Hinchliffe, Yihao Zhou, Jessie Bao, Andrew Chen, ​Aerim Kim

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Costume Designer: Jen Stephenson

Set Design/Construction: J. Bradley Baker

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Cast

Hänsel:

Elaina Noto, Hannah Park

Gretel: 

Jinni Shen, Shira Ziv

Peter (Vater): 

Kailun Hu, Samuel Leopold

Gertrud (Mutter): 

Allyson Bennett, Whitney Myers

Knusperhexe: 

Athena Rajnai, Mary Wright

Sandman: 

Jenna Justice, Ruma Jang

Dewfairy: 

Jisoo Choi, Cameron Kidd

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Ensemble: 

Polly Ayala

Sarah Chase

Caitlyn Chisham

Elizabeth Fassler  

Cheyenne Holland

Amy Krutsch 

Kaitlyn Rongish 

Victoria Schmidt 

Ashton Aranda 

Avery Corder 

Lucy Enns

Rebekah Grande 

Jay Hendricks 

Alaina Hogan 

Kimberly Milburn 

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About Hänsel und Gretel

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Hänsel und Gretel is an opera in three acts with music by Engelbert Humperdinck to a German libretto Humperdinck's sister, Adelheid Wette. It was premiered on December 23, 1893 with Richard Strauss conducting.

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Language: Sung in German with English supertitles

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Composition Date: 1891-1892

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Runtime: 1.5 hours

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