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Ashley Dean

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Philip Sunderland

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Laura Jane Stanfield

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Kevin Treacy

Choreographer

Christina Fulcher

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Royal Academy Sinfonia

Singer

Lina Dambrauskaite

Vixen Sharp Ears

Hazel Neighbour

James Geidt

Forester

Thomas Bennett

Badger

Peter Harris

Schoolmaster

Mosquito

Clare Tunney

Forester’s Wife

Robert Forrest

Pásek, the Innkeeper

Niall Anderson

Harašta

Yuki Akimoto

Mrs. Páskova, Pásek's wife

Gabrielė Kupšytė

Lapák, a dog

Samantha Quillish

Samuel Kibble

Cock

Lorna McLean

Hope Lavelle

Helen May

Woodpecker

Aimée Fisk

Pepík, Forester's grandson

Maya Colwell

Frantík, Pepík's friend

Anna Mengel

Vixen Cub

Kathleen Nic Dhiarmada

Frog

Ashleigh Charlton

Grasshopper

Jack Lee

Cricket

English

The Cunning Little Vixen (arr. Dove) -  (The Cunning Little Vixen (arr. Jonathan Dove))

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United Kingdom

Susie Sainsbury Theatre

The Cunning Little Vixen (arr. Dove) Dove | Janáček

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The Cunning Little Vixen (arr. Jonathan Dove)

Matias Vergara Moyano

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One of the great masterpieces of early 20th century music, Janáček’s extraordinary and unusual opera The Cunning Little Vixen is a life-affirming meditation on man’s relationship with nature.

Drawing unlikely inspiration from an illustrated story serialised in his local newspaper about the life of a scheming vixen cub who is captured by the local forester, grows up in captivity on his farm and then escapes back to the woods to raise a family, Janáček transformed this seemingly lighthearted story into a philosophical reflection on the eternal cycle of life.

Like the ageing forester in the story, Janáček was well aware at the time of composing the opera that most of his life was behind him (he was 70 years old when it was premiered in 1924), However, The Cunning Little Vixen contains some of the composer’s most youthful and vivid music as he embraces the beauty, cruelty and indefinable magic of nature. It is this fresh exuberance of a composer at the height of his powers which has helped to secure Vixen’s reputation as an enduring masterpiece.

Sung in English.

The Cunning Little Vixen (arr. Jonathan Dove) by Janáček, From (2019/2019), Directed by Ashley Dean,, Conductor Philip Sunderland, Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London, United Kingdom

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