2025 season
Hansel and gretel in vegas
The 2025 NEW VOICE FESTIVAL PresentS
HANSEL AND GRETEL (Humperdinck)
AT THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE
Conceived and Designed by ANdrea Delgiudice
The NEW VOICE FESTIVAL chamber ensemble
DIRECTORs, ANDREA DELGIUDICE & YURI NAPOLI
The New Voice Festival Opera Program presents Andrea DelGiudice’s reconceived, fully-staged Opera production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel in Las Vegas. Take a trip with the kids on their journey to Las Vegas and all the zany characters they meet along the way, until arriving at “Rosina’s Cabaret” for a crazy show! Directed by Andrea DelGiudice (Program director) & Yuri Napoli (Zeffirelli Foundation); conducted by Rider R. Foster; with imagery by Giulio Ferro (Rai television).
ROLES:
Witch (Drag Queen or Drag King) - tenor / dramatic soprano / mezzo soprano
Gretel - soprano
Hansel - mezzo-soprano
Mother - dramatic soprano
Father - baritone
Sandman (Elvis) / Dewfairy / Talent Agent - soprano
Children’s Chorus
All roles are double cast.
2025 THE NEW VOICE FESTIVAL Season
HANSEL AND GRETEL IN VEGAS
Presenting a new concept designed and directed, by Andrea DelGiudice bringing new life to the classic work with a Las Vegas twist.
A NIGHT OF OPERA AND MUSICAL THEATER
A concert of opera and musical theater scenes and arias in historic Boise at The Jump, including world premieres of opera scenes and art songs from the Composers In Residence Studio
PERFORMATIVA - VIRTUAL & LIVE INDUSTRY PANEL
A Festival intensive in Arte Scenica (language of the body) e Canto (singing) for Audition preparation in opera and musical theater with Internationally recognized artists Yuri Napoli, Director of Performing Artists at the Zeffirelli Foundation in Italy; and Andrea DelGiudice “The Voice whisperer,” Internationally renowned soprano and New York City vocal master teacher. Our final day is “The audition” for a panel of top industry professionals.
Pieta (Landau)/Suor Angelica, conceived and directed by Andrea DelGiudice - photos by Michael Anderson