Abends, will ich schlafen gehn Engelbert Humperdinck / Arr. Jos van de Braak

Titel / Title: Abends, will ich schlafen gehn - from the Opera Hänsel und Gretel
Herausgeber / Publisher: Baton Music
Instrumentation: Soprano, Mezzo Soprano and Wind Ensemble
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen

From its first performance, Engelbert Humperdinck's opera 'Hänsel und Gretel' was a phenomenal succes, produces at over fifty theaters in its first year alone. This evergreen opera, based on the Grimm Brothers fairy tale, continues to charm audiences young and old with its buoyant musical fantasy. This transcription is the second scene of the second act: In the forest, the children have eaten all the berries and are lost. The Sandman appears and, saying their evening prayers, they fall asleep surrounded by a vision of 14 guardian angels.