I don't know of any songs setting actual text by Grimm, but there are
songs based on Grimm's fairy tales, including:
John Duke: Rapunzel
Carl Reinecke: Wie Hansel und Gretel Birnen schuetten
Gustav Mahler: Hans und Grete (Maitanz in Gruenen)
Johannes Brahms: Dornroeschen, from Volks-Kinderlieder
I don't know what your fach is, but you may also look at appropriate arias
from:
Humperdinck: HANSEL UND GRETEL
Thomas Pasatieri: THE GOOSE GIRL
Seymour Barab: LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD; SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
Lou Harrison: RAPUNZEL
Conrad Susa: TRANSFORMATIONS
Philip Glass: THE JUNIPER TREE
Andrew Toovey: THE JUNIPER TREE
Carl Orff: DER MOND; DIE KLUGE
Then, just for the fun of it, how about:
Happily Ever After, from Mary Rodgers' musical ONCE UPON A MATTRESS
Songs from the Disney films of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty
Hello, Little Girl (or another song), from Sondheim's INTO THE WOODS
Songs from Rodgers & Hammerstein's CINDERELLA
Note that I've excluded works based on CINDERELLA because all the operatic
versions of that tale use the Charles Perrault version of the story as
their basis, not the Brothers Grimm version.
Karen Mercedes
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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