See the trailer here!

Cast includes Rebecca Evans, Mary Lloyd Davies & Joanne Boag.

‘When they at last awoke, it was already dark. Gretel began to cry and said “How are we to get out of the forest now?”’

Dark, macabre and wickedly funny, Welsh National Opera’s Olivier Award-winning Hansel & Gretel is a grown up exploration of this classic fairytale.

Hansel and Gretel’s mother comes home, exhausted and empty-handed, to find her children insatiably ravenous. She snaps and drives them out into the forest. Poor Hansel and Gretel suffer throughout. They are punished by the forest; punished for not finding food; punished for taking food from within the forest and terrorised by the wicked Witch who threatens to cook them. But at least she gets her just desserts…

This darkly beautiful production with strange and surreal characters is magical and mysterious. This is your chance to see a truly theatrical event which has already overwhelmed critics.

Performances start at 7.15pm except Sunday 8 June (4pm).
Running time approximately 2hrs 10mins.
Sung in English with English and Welsh surtitles.
Pre-performance talks at 6.15pm on Friday 30 May and Sunday 8 June at 3pm.
Co-production with Lyric Opera of Chicago.