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To Parents: The opera production your children will see this year is "Hansel and Gretel." An opera is a play set to music. For almost 400 years, since the first opera was performed, people have asked, "Why sing a play when you can speak it?" And for hundreds of years, audiences have found that the combination of music and drama creates something special: a powerful means of communicating emotions.
In Opera, music makes everything larger than life. Music amplifies the actions, words and emotions of the characters and reaches an audience in a way that words alone could never do. We hope this experience will be one your child will never forget.
An Opera Quiz
After seeing the opera Hansel and Gretel answer the following questions:
1. What does the father do for a living?
2. What is the father's name?
3. What is the mother's name?
4. In the woods, why do the children become afraid?
5. Who comes and sings to Hansel and Gretel?
6. What appears as the children wake up?
7. Why do they go to it?
8. What does the witch plan to do with them?
9. How do they escape her?
10. Do the father and mother find them?