Hänsel und Gretel, Glyndebourne

Hänsel and Gretel in Rotherham? Glyndebourne's tour of Laurent Pelly's production doesn't travel quite that far north, but if it did, Pelly and Jamie Oliver would have plenty to talk about.Revived for touring by Stéphane Marlot, Pelly's staging transposes Humperdinck's fairytale opera into a world where cardboard-box-dwelling children are lured away by a witch whose house looks like a nightmarish branch of Lidl, stacked with enough Day-Glo E-numbers to make a sloth hyperactive. But we barely g...

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