Organization

Stage director

Stage director (+5)

Joan Anton Rechi

Costume designer

Costume designer (+2)

Sebastian Ellrich

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+2)

Stefan Bilz

Dramaturge

Carla Neppl

Bass-baritone (+2)

Jukka Rasilainen

Forester

Tenor

Thomas Kiechle

Schoolmaster

Tenor (+4)

Felix Rohleder

Harasta

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Anna Grycan

Woodpecker

Soprano

Jung-Eun Park

Pepik

Soprano (+1)

Marie Hänsel

Cunning Vixen

Marlen Bieber

The Fox Zlatohrbitek

Tenor (+1)

Martin Lechleitner

Pasek

Tenor (+3)

Timo Rößner

Tea Trifković

Mrs. Paskova

Bass (+4)

Alexander Kiechle

Priest

Badger

Chocholka

Daria Kalinina

Rooster

Set designer

Conductor (+1)

Lorenz Höss

Elžběta Laabs

Frantik

Lighting designer

Marcus Klemmt

Theater Chemnitz

Orchestra

Robert Schumann Philharmonic

Chorus

Chorus of the Chemnitz Opera

Children's and Youth chorus of the Chemnitz Opera

Opernhaus Chemnitz

Conductor

Conductor (+3)

Guillermo García Calvo

Mosquito

Diego Martin-Etxebarria

Mezzo-soprano (+1)

Leandra Johne

Forester's wife

Mezzo-soprano (+5)

Sophia Maeno

A forest ranger captures a young vixen and lets her grow up on his farm with the other pets. But she doesn't feel like subordinating herself to the laws of human animal husbandry. She certainly doesn't want to one day warm the hands of the gracious lady forester as a fur muff. The fox manages to escape. In the woods, the confident young lady who calls herself smartass secures a home by driving the old badger out of his den. Her beauty and manners attract Mr. Goldmane, a gallant fox with whom the fox falls head over heels. The early marriage is followed by a rich blessing of children. How carefree it is in the animal world, while people spend their days fretting and grieving for missed opportunities instead of hugging each other lovingly and enjoying existence. Finally, a poacher destroys the cheerful idyll of the Fuchs family. He kills the fox, but she has long since passed on her life-affirming energy to her children, opening a new chapter in the coexistence of humans and animals.

Leoš Janáček was inspired to write this opera in the early 1920s by an illustrated serial story about the experiences of the Sly Vixen. Janáček, himself a great lover of nature, describes becoming and passing away as an eternal cycle that nature and human beings follow in equal measure. Jaroslav Vogel wrote in his Janáček biography: "Of all the master's operas, the Cunning Little Vixen always be particularly dear and valuable to us as an embodiment of optimism and a sunny attitude to life, as a delightfully carefree excursion of the imagination - as the Czech Midsummer Night ."

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