Backstage
These people collect or create all things the actors will need.
What is prop master?
The name of the men who wrote the original story.
Who are the Grimm Brothers?
Where the very first opera house opened in 1637.
What is Venice/Italy?
Hansel would be sung by this voice type.
What is Mezzo-Soprano?
Give the definition of a 'stage director.'
What is the person who is responsible for what happens on stage? He/She tells the singers how to move-when to walk from stage left to right, when to enter through a door, etc-and helps them understand the characters that they are playing.
What is scenic artists?
Name one of the folk tunes that is sung in the opera.
What is "Suse, liebe Suse/Brother, come & dance with me"?
This word describes the chant-like speech-singing that occurs in an opera.
What is recitative?
Gretel would sung by this voice type.
What is Soprano?
The different coloured hanging material that hangs at the front of the stage and can be moved up/down/side-to-side when the opera begins.
What are curtains?
The name of the composer of the opera "Hansel & Gretel."
Who is Engelbert Humperdinck?
The name of the person who conducts the orchestra and singers during the opera performance.
What is the music director/conductor?
The name of the lowest male singer.
What is bass?
This type of stage allows the performer to come up from underneath the stage OR go down from the stage and disappear under it.
What is a trapdoor?
What Adelheid Catharina Maria Humperdinck Wette wrote for the Hansel & Gretel opera.
What is the libretto (or text)?
The type of the songs sung in an opera that gives the audience a look as to how the character feels.
What is an aria?
What opera singers use to produce the most power in their voices when singing.
What is breath?
These people work with the lights or light features of the opera.
What is Lighting directors/assistants?
What is when Hansel & Gretel pick strawberries/break the milk jug/teaching Hansel how to dance/parents taking them into the woods.
The title of the person in charge of the opera house who organizes the operas for a season/year.
Who is the general director?
The name of the piece of music that is performed by the orchestra at the beginning of the opera.
What is an overature?
The role that Ms. Bucher performed in the Hansel & Gretel opera a long time ago.
What is Hansel?