In this opera, a setting of the prayer "Now I Lay me Down to Sleep" is followed by a vision inwhich fourteen angels descend with a golden blanket.
In this opera, a setting of the prayer "Now I Lay me Down to Sleep" is followed by a vision inwhich fourteen angels descend with a golden blanket. It opens as one character knits socks and singsa song about "Susie, Little Susie." One character in this work is a broom maker who drunkenlyreturns home after selling all his brooms at a wedding. After hearing the call of a cuckoo, twocharacters in this opera (*) eat all of the strawberries they were supposed to be picking. Its not The Talesof Hoffman, but its first and second acts transition with mirroring songs of the Sandman and the Dew Fairy.This opera ends with its villain singing "Hurr, hopp, hurr, hopp" in the Hexenleid before being pushed intoan oven by one of its title characters. For 10 points, name this Engelbert Humperdinck opera about kidswho find a gingerbread house.
In this opera, a setting of the prayer "Now I Lay me Down to Sleep" is followed by a vision inwhich fourteen angels descend with a golden blanket.
Hansel and Gretel [or Hansel und Gretel]