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Hansel and Gretel

  • Sat Jan 31
    Doors open
    4:00 PM
    Start
    7:30 PM
    End
    9:30 PM
    Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary
    Past event
  • Sun Feb 1
    Doors open
    12:30 PM
    Start
    2:00 PM
    End
    4:00 PM
    Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary
    Past event
  • Fri Feb 6
    Doors open
    6:00 PM
    Start
    7:30 PM
    End
    9:30 PM
    Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary
    Past event

A delectable feast for the eyes and ears.

Experience all ages eye candy, featuring the handcrafted wonder of Calgary’s Old Trout Puppet Workshop. Let beautiful music and the soaring voices of Cantaré Children’s Choir sweep you into an enchanted realm where imagination comes alive.

Set, Costumes, and Puppet Design: Old Trout Puppet Workshop, provided by Kentucky Opera. Production originally designed for and created by Vancouver Opera.

  • Music by Englebert Humperdinck
  • Words by Adelheid Wette
  • Runtime is 2h including one 25m intermission
  • Sung in English, with projected English captions
  • Featuring Cantaré Children's Choir and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra

Program

HANSEL AND GRETEL HOUSE PROGRAM

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Simone Osborne as Gretel and Xenia Puskarz Thomas as Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, 2026. Photo: Benjamin Laird.
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Scenic and puppetry design by Old Trout Puppet Workshop in Hansel and Gretel, 2026. Photo: Benjamin Laird.
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Simone Osborne as Gretel and Xenia Puskarz Thomas as Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, 2026. Photo: Benjamin Laird.
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Claire Barnett Jones as Gertrude and Peter Barrett as Peter in Hansel and Gretel, 2026. Photo: Benjamin Laird.
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Puppeteer Pete Balkwill, scenic and puppetry design by Old Trout Puppet Workshop in Hansel and Gretel, 2026. Photo: Benjamin Laird.
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Puppeteer Ali DeRegt, scenic and puppetry design by Old Trout Puppet Workshop in Hansel and Gretel, 2026. Photo: Benjamin Laird.
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Puppeteer Pete Balkwill with members of the Cantaré Children's Choir, scenic and puppetry design by Old Trout Puppet Workshop in Hansel and Gretel, 2026. Photo: Benjamin Laird.
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Simone Osborne as Gretel and Xenia Puskarz Thomas as Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, 2026. Photo: Benjamin Laird.
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Simone Osborne as Gretel, Xenia Puskarz Thomas as Hansel and Maria Milenic, Pete Balkwill, and Ali DeRegt as the Sandman in Hansel and Gretel, 2026. Photo: Benjamin Laird.
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Simone Osborne as Gretel and Xenia Puskarz Thomas as Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, 2026. Photo: Benjamin Laird.
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Katelyn Bird, Pete Balkwill and Ali DeRegt as the Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel, 2026. Photo: Benjamin Laird.
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Claire Barnett Jones and Ali DeRegt as the Witch, Xenia Puskarz Thomas as Hansel, and Simone Osborne as Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, 2026. Photo: Benjamin Laird.
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Claire Barnett Jones and Ali DeRegt as the Witch in Hansel and Gretel, 2026. Photo: Benjamin Laird.
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Artists of Hansel and Gretel

Jonathan Brandani

Conductor

Brenna Corner

Stage Director

Xenia Puskarz Thomas

Hansel

Simone Osborne

Gretel

Claire Barnett-Jones

Claire Barnett-Jones

Gingerbread Witch / Gertrude

Peter Barrett

Peter Barrett

Peter

Katelyn Bird

Dewman, the Dew Fairy

Maria Milenic

Sandman / Sleep Fairy

Ali DeRegt, puppeteer

Ali DeRegt

Puppeteer

Peter Balkwill, Co-Artistic Director of Old Trout Puppet Workshop

Peter Balkwill

Puppeteer

 

 

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