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Educator's Guide STUDIO TOUR PRESENTS EDUCATOR’S GUIDE PRESENTS STUDIO TOUR Hansel&Gretel FIRST PERFORMANCE Dec. 23, 1893 at the Weimar Hoftheater, Weimar, Germany COMPOSER Engelbert Humperdinck LIBRETTIST Adelheid Wette ENGLISH ADAPTATION Brenna Corner PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Brenna Corner MUSIC DIRECTOR Rolando Salazar SCENIC & CO-PUPPET DESIGNER James F. Rotondo, III COSTUME & CO-PUPPET DESIGNER Joanna Schmink PROPS COORDINATOR Kelsey Bailey CARL W. KNOBLOCH, JR. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT GENERAL & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Amy Davis Tomer Zvulun DIRECTOR OF MARKETING MANAGING DIRECTOR Holly Hanchey Micah Fortson ASSOCIATE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR CARL & SALLY GABLE MUSIC DIRECTOR Joshua S. Jansen Arthur Fagen AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION & EDUCATION MANAGER Kevin Mynatt Jessica Kiger DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION EDUCATION COORDINATOR Lauren Bailey Alexandria Sweatt 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Hansel&Gretel TITLE PAGE ............................................................................................................................. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................................... 3 WELCOME ............................................................................................................................... 4 WHAT TO EXPECT ................................................................................................................ 4 WHO’S WHO & SYNOPSIS .................................................................................................. 5 MEET THE CREATORS .......................................................................................................... 6 FAIRYTALES ............................................................................................................................. 9 OPERA 101 ............................................................................................................................. 10 OPERA AROUND THE WORLD ...........................................................................................11 TYPES OF OPERATIC VOICES ............................................................................................12 IMPORTANT JOBS AT THE OPERA ...................................................................................13 OPERA IN ATLANTA ............................................................................................................14 CONNECTING TO GEORGIA STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE ....................................15 SPECIAL THANKS .................................................................................................................16 HANSEL AND GRETEL ACTIVITY PAGES PRE-PERFORMANCE .......................................................................................................... A1 MUSIC LISTENING .............................................................................................................. A2 THEATER ............................................................................................................................... A3 COSTUME DESIGN ............................................................................................................. A4 PUPPET DESIGN ................................................................................................................. A5 IMAGINE A PLACE ............................................................................................................... A6 ELA: OPERA VOCABULARY ............................................................................................. A7 ELA: HANSEL AND GRETEL VOCABULARY ................................................................. A8 HANSEL AND GRETEL VOCABULARY ACTIVITY...............................................A9, A10 ELA: WRITE A LETTER TO THE PERFORMERS ............................................................A11 ELA: WRITE A REVIEW .....................................................................................................A12 ELA: ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES .......................................................................................A13 SCIENCE: THE SCIENCE OF SOUND – OPERATIC VOICES .....................................A14 SCIENCE: THE SCIENCE OF SOUND – HOW SOUND IS MADE ...............................A16 SOCIAL STUDIES: TIMELINE ............................................................................................A18 MATH: OPERA WORD PROBLEMS .................................................................................A19 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ..............................................................................................A20 3 WELCOME HELLO! Thank you for inviting The Atlanta Opera into your Social Studies. Our goal is to provide you with an school to perform for your students! innovative, multidisciplinary approach to teaching required skills and curriculum, including connections to The Atlanta Opera Studio Tour was founded in 1980 the Georgia Standards of Excellence. in an effort to teach students throughout the state of Georgia about opera through live performances and In using this guide, we hope you will feel free to adapt workshops. Approximately one million students have pages or activities to best meet the needs of your been introduced to the art form of opera through students. A simple activity may be a perfect launching The Atlanta Opera Studio Tour. It is our intention pad for a higher-level lesson, and a complex lesson for students to gain introductory knowledge about may contain key points onto which younger students opera through the performance experience and can latch. Please make this guide your own! accompanying educational materials. Thank you again for allowing us to share this This educator guide has been developed to help you experience with you. We value your feedback and and your students explore Hansel and Gretel, as well will take it into account in planning future education as to familiarize students with the world of opera programs. We look forward to hearing from you, (vocabulary, history, etc.). The guide approaches these your students, administration, and/or parents following subjects via a wide range of disciplines, including the performance. English Language Arts, Science, Music, Theater and • We will be performing a 45-minute opera in English for WHAT TO your students. EXPECT FROM • Our show requires attentive listening from the audience. THE ATLANTA • The opera may take place in your school gymnasium or cafeteria rather than an auditorium, so students may be OPERA’S seated on the floor. HANSEL AND • You and your students will be invited to ask questions at GRETEL the end of the performance. Choose 15-20 students to join The Atlanta Opera Studio Tour performers onstage! Download NEW THIS the Student Participation PDF Handbook for more information. SEASON! https://www.atlantaopera.org/education/#studiotour 4 CAST & SYNOPSIS WHO’S WHO? WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Backround set rendering for Hansel and Gretel for the Atlanta Opera Studio Tour. (sketch: James F. Rotondo, III, 2019.) CHARACTER CAST GRETEL The older sister AMY SMITHWICK soprano HANSEL The younger Brother JESSICA WAX mezzo-soprano FATHER Hansel and Gretel’s father SANDMAN A fairy creature who lives in the forest SAMUEL FERREIRA baritone and sings lullabies THE WITCH A misunderstood magical person ROBERT BANKS tenor who lives in the forest PIANIST CHOO CHOO HU SYNOPSIS house – a Witch – arrives and tries to speak to Hansel Once upon a time … Hansel and Gretel’s home, and Gretel, but in their fear, they run away. a magical forest, and the witch’s home To keep the children nearby, the Witch tries to turn Brother and sister Hansel and Gretel are ignoring their them into gingerbread children, but Gretel escapes chores, playing instead of doing what Father asked, so and tries to push the Witch into the oven. The Witch he sends them off into the nearby woods to look for catches her and explains why she’s so lonely. Everyone berries for the family. comes to steal parts of her delicious house, she says, which she has worked hard to build herself. Then they While picking berries, Hansel and Gretel get distracted, run away, and she has no friends. and while impersonating the Cuckoo bird they eat all the berries. Lost and scared in the darkening wood, Hansel and Gretel apologize and promise to stay the Sandman comes to them and puts them to sleep. friends with the Witch. The Witch thanks the children and agrees to undo the other spells she has placed In the morning, the starving children wake to find a on the gingerbread children there. Father finds the wonderful gingerbread house, which they immediately children in the woods with their new friend the Witch, begin eating – without asking first. The owner of the and they all sing together. 5 MEET THE CREATORS were giving him at home. After his sister wrote a libretto, Humperdinck composed a singspiel of 16 songs with piano accompaniment, which he quickly used to begin working on a complete orchestration. This orchestration turned into Hansel and Gretel. Hansel and Gretel premiered in 1893, under the baton of Richard Strauss. Between 1895 and 1919 Humperdinck produced six more operas, including Dornroschen (Frankfurt, 1902) and Konigskinder (New York City, 1910), but neither they nor the spectacle The Miracle (London, 1911) enhanced his prestige. He also wrote incidental music for plays by Aristophanes, Shakespeare, and Maeterlinck; a Moorish Rhapsody for orchestra (1898); a string quartet, works for piano; and songs. Hansel and Gretel has always
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