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Into the woods with Scottish Opera's Hansel And Gretel

Comedian Eddie Izzard does a hilarious skit about Engelbert Humperdinck (aka Gerry Dorsey), the Anglo-Indian crooner who topped the UK charts in the 1960s.

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Scottish Opera revives the spirits of the Brothers Grimm with a new staging of Humperdinck’s opera Hansel And Gretel. By Mark Brown

Izzard imagines the singer's managers going through a whole list of crazy pseudonyms, such as "Zinglebert Bembledack" and "Yingybert Bangydan" before they finally alight upon the stage name "Engelbert Humperdinck". The truth of the transformation is, sadly, much more prosaic: Dorsey and his managers simply borrowed the name from the composer of the late 19th-century German opera, Hansel and Gretel.