The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.

Hansel and Gretel is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck, who described it as a Märchenoper. The libretto was written by Humperdinck's sister, Adelheid Wette, based on the Grimm brothers' fairy tale of the same name. It is much admired for its folk music-inspired themes, one of the most famous being the "Abendsegen" from act 2.

Engelbert Humperdinck was a German composer. He is known widely for his opera Hansel and Gretel (1893).