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The Ford Sunday Evening Hour is an American concert radio series sponsored by the Ford Motor Company. The hour-long program was broadcast from 1934 to 1946, [ 1 ] with a hiatus from 1942 to 1945. Later known as The Ford Symphony Hour , the program presented selections of classical music, hymns, popular ballads and well-known arias.
Hansel and Gretel (German: Hänsel und Gretel) is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck, who described it as a Märchenoper (fairy-tale opera). The libretto was written by Humperdinck's sister, Adelheid Wette , based on the Grimm brothers ' fairy tale of the same name .
With its highly original synthesis of Wagnerian techniques and traditional German folk songs, Hansel and Gretel was an instant and overwhelming success. [1] Hansel and Gretel has always been Humperdinck's most popular work. [citation needed] In 1923, the Royal Opera House (London) chose it for their first complete radio opera broadcast.
Hänsel und Gretel is a 107-minute studio album of Engelbert Humperdinck's 1893 opera of the same name, performed by Ileana Cotrubaș, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Christa Ludwig, Siegmund Nimsgern, Elisabeth Söderström, Frederica von Stade and Ruth Welting with the Children's Chorus of Cologne Opera and the Gürzenich Orchestra under the direction of Sir John Pritchard.
Adelheid Catharina Maria Humperdinck Wette (4 September 1858 – 9 August 1916) [1] was a German author, composer, and folklorist who is best remembered today as the librettist of her brother Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretel.
Mills, aware that the singer had been struggling for several years to become successful in the music industry, suggested a name-change to the more arresting Engelbert Humperdinck, borrowed from the 19th-century German composer of operas such as Hansel and Gretel. [1] The reason was simply the unusual sound of the name in English.