Hansel and Gretel (opera) After several revisions, the musical sketches and the songs were turned into a full-scale opera. Humperdinck composed "Hansel and Gretel" in Frankfurt in 1891 and 1892. The opera was first performed in Hoftheater in Weimar on 23 December 1893, conducted by Richard Strauss. It has been associated with Christmas since its earliest performances and today it is still most often performed at Christmas time. "Hansel and Gretel" was first conducted in Weimar by Richard Strauss in 1893, followed by its Hamburg premiere on 25 September 1894, conducted by Gustav Mahler. Its first performance outside Germany was in Basel, Switzerland, on
NSEL case to the applicant (Jignesh Shah), or for that matter, to NSEL. The Enforcement Directorate arrested him on 12 July 2016 for assisting NSEL defaulters in money laundering. A special PMLA court granted bail to Shah terming the arrest by ED was ‘illegal’. After hearing both sides, Hon. Judge P.R. Bhavake, Special PMLA Court, Mumbai, ruled: “The learned counsel for the ED failed to satisfy me that this arrest is for a separate crime… I do not find any force in the contention that the ED wanted to file a supplementary complaint against the applicant (Shah) in respect of the investigation