At first, I suspected that this report of a pedophile-populated production of Hansel and Gretel was an implausible hoax concocted by AC Douglas to bolster his already very convincing case against Director Opera, but the link, to the Australian paper The Age, appears to be legit. Director Giancarlo del Monaco gets off in Erfurt: "The fairytale forest is replaced by a red-light district, with high-rises, garbage dumps and begging children. The children's mother is a whore and their father an alcoholic. The 'sand-man' is a cocaine-snorting pimp, who pursues Hansel and Gretel with a video camera and hands them over to the wicked witch — the modern 'stranger' who could be the man down the road, the local pervert, the Catholic priest."
