Hansel and Gretel: An Opera Fantasy

00:00:42 NARRATOR: Long ago, in a little hut near a forest

00:00:51 But this day they wanted to go and play in the fields outside.

00:01:01 but warned them that they must not go too far or they might get lost.

00:01:59 And he ran off into the forest.

00:02:56 And then suddenly they saw...

00:03:09 and the roof was made of marzipan cakes.

00:03:31 OLD WOMAN: Nibble, nibble, little mouse. Who is nibbling up my house?

00:03:56 Oh, please do stay with me.

00:04:10 Your feet can't move and your eyes can't see.

00:04:34 Their poor mother and father could not imagine

00:04:42 he could find no trace of them.

00:05:06 This was Hansel's chance and he quietly crawled away from the witch.

00:05:29 that she was fattening up for her Sunday dinner.

00:05:59 that it was all his fault that they had got lost in the forest

00:06:08 to try to help them to escape.

00:06:27 On with your work, now. On with your work.

00:06:39 Scrub it out and make it white, but first my broomstick handle bright.

00:07:08 (WlTCH SCREECHlNG)

00:07:51 Gretel quickly snatched up the witch's stick.

00:08:05 And the witch broke into tiny pieces.

00:08:30 They were so excited. But they still didn't know the way home.

00:09:08 The goose couldn't keep up with them and wanted to stay behind.

00:09:29 when they saw Hansel and Gretel running towards them

00:09:47 and they all lived with them there in the hut ever after.