Hansel and Gretel - review

Theatre Royal, GlasgowThe original Brothers Grimm fairytale is deeply creepy; Humperdinck's 1893 opera version is generally less so, though the luxuriant score makes up for the loss. This new Scottish Opera production – a pretty, well sung but fairly banal rendition – was less so, still. Bill Bankes-Jones' direction and doggerel translation told the action straight, but he sanitised any psychological intrigue and stripped away the dark magic of the forest. There was little enchantment to the...

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