Lounge rats still feeling shattered from their New Year’s Eve festivities might be less than enthusiastic about getting up early for a couple of hours of Engelbert Humperdinck music. But the ’60s crooner isn’t in town, anyway. We’re talking way more retro, all the way back to 1893 and the original German composer Humperdinck’s perennial fairy-tale opera Hansel and Gretel, brought to you live via high-definition transmission from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Full of lively, angst-free Romantic-era tunes, with a cross-dressing soprano singing the part of a plucky Teutonic lad, who along with his dirndled sister shuts down the local witch, it’ll have you whistling something other than that other Engelbert’s “Release Me.” Catch it at 10 a.m., January 1 at these movie theaters: Orleans 18, Colonnade 14, Village Square 18, Sam’s Town 18 and Santa Fe Station 16.