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Engelbert Humperdinck’s music for “Hansel and Gretel” is such an eclectic and cinematic composition that to hear it is to take an evocative ride through your own past. I variously found myself back in ...

DULUTH — Lyric Opera of the North reminds everybody that the Twin Ports has its very own opera company with a charming production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” at the Marshall ...

Two siblings are abandoned in the woods in the hope they’ll miraculously have a better life. As they attempt to find their way home, they almost end up being eaten alive - figuratively as well as ...

When I ask around, nearly everybody knows the story of a brother and sister, who wander in the dim forest until they reach deliciously smelling house made of ginger cookies, candy, and other treats. A ...

Only a couple of years or so later, I was alone (friends must have left early) and had miscalculated the time required to walk back from the sandhills of Freshfield Beach to the railway station, 20 ...

The cover of "Hansel and Gretel.: (Illustrated by Maurice Sendak, courtesy of HarperCollins) Iconic horror writer Stephen King has reimagined a classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale: “Hansel and Gretel.” ...