Organization

Stage director

Nicholas Hytner

Choreographer

Jean-Claude Gallotta

Lighting designer

Jean Kalman

Costume designer

Bob Crowley

Chorus master

James Johnson

Conductor

Charles Mackerras

Singer

Baritone

Thomas Allen

Forester

Soprano

Eva Jenis

Cunning Vixen

Contralto

Libuse Márová

Forester's wife

Bass

Ivan Kusnjer

Harasta

François Martinaud

Woodpecker

Richard Novák

Parson

Badger

Tenor

Josef Hajna

Schoolmaster

Mosquito

Sarah Connolly

Mrs. Paskova

Rooster

Théâtre du Châtelet

Others

Choeur du Châtelet

Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine

Orchestra

Orchestre de Paris

Příhody lišky Bystroušky -  (The Cunning Little Vixen)

Paris

France

An enchanting children's story, here presented in Nicholas Hytner's highly poetic production.

In the forest, a forester is having a nap against a tree. Waken up by a vixen cub playing with a frog, the forester captures the vixen and takes it home. But the vixen is unhappy in this confinement among servile pets. The vixen decides to run off to freedom. A handsome fox appears. Introductions, seduction, marriage: the couple soon settles and gets a litter of fox cubs. The poacher Harasta arrives in the forest, sets traps, shoots. The vixen is killed. Harasta offers the vixen's fur to his bride, Terynka, during their wedding day. The forester, overwhelmed with the lost of the vixen and Terynka, whom he loved, finds consolation seeing the vixen's cubs running around, contemplating the everlasting cycle of life and death.

 Drawing its inspiration from a comic-strip written by Stanislav Lolek, The Cunning Little Vixen is an enchantingly poetic opera. Combining the simplicity of a children's story with the spontaneity of Moravian folk songs, Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen carries the spectator away into an ingenious and naive world. But underneath an apparent simplicity, emotion pierces through. An emotion sometimes innocent and lighthearted, sometimes tragic and solemn, but an emotion always confident in the eternal renewal of life.

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The Cunning Little Vixen

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The Cunning Little Vixen Janacek - Théâtre du Chatelet

An enchanting children's story, here presented in Nicholas Hytner's highly poetic production.

In the forest, a forester is having a nap against a tree. Waken up by a vixen cub playing with a frog, the forester captures the vixen and takes it home. But the vixen is unhappy in this confinement among servile pets. The vixen decides to run off to freedom. A handsome fox appears. Introductions, seduction, marriage: the couple soon settles and gets a litter of fox cubs. The poacher Harasta arrives in the forest, sets traps, shoots. The vixen is killed. Harasta offers the vixen's fur to his bride, Terynka, during their wedding day. The forester, overwhelmed with the lost of the vixen and Terynka, whom he loved, finds consolation seeing the vixen's cubs running around, contemplating the everlasting cycle of life and death.

 

Drawing its inspiration from a comic-strip written by Stanislav Lolek, The Cunning Little Vixen is an enchantingly poetic opera. Combining the simplicity of a children's story with the spontaneity of Moravian folk songs, Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen carries the spectator away into an ingenious and naive world. But underneath an apparent simplicity, emotion pierces through. An emotion sometimes innocent and lighthearted, sometimes tragic and solemn, but an emotion always confident in the eternal renewal of life.

English

The Cunning Little Vixen by Janáček, From (1995/1995), Directed by Nicholas Hytner,, Conductor Charles Mackerras, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France

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