Organization

Regia

Regia (+5)

Joan Anton Rechi

Costumi

Costumi (+2)

Sebastian Ellrich

Direzione del coro

Direzione del coro (+2)

Stefan Bilz

Drammaturgo

Carla Neppl

Basso-baritono (+2)

Jukka Rasilainen

Guardacaccia

Tenore

Thomas Kiechle

Il maestro di scuola

Tenore (+4)

Felix Rohleder

Harasta

Mezzosoprano (+3)

Anna Grycan

Il picchio

Soprano

Jung-Eun Park

Pepik

Soprano (+1)

Marie Hänsel

La volpe Bystrouška

Marlen Bieber

La volpe Zlatohrbítek

Tenore (+1)

Martin Lechleitner

Pasek

Tenore (+3)

Timo Rößner

Tea Trifković

La signora Paskova

Basso (+4)

Alexander Kiechle

Il parroco

Il tasso

Chocholka

Daria Kalinina

La ghiandaia

Rooster

Scenografia

Direttore d'orchestra (+1)

Lorenz Höss

Elžběta Laabs

Frantik

Luci

Marcus Klemmt

Theater Chemnitz

Orchestra

Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie

Chorus

Chor der Oper Chemnitz

Kinder- und Jugendchor der Oper Chemnitz

Opernhaus Chemnitz

Direttore d'orchestra

Direttore d'orchestra (+3)

Guillermo García Calvo

La zanzara

Diego Martin-Etxebarria

Mezzosoprano (+1)

Leandra Johne

La moglie del guardiacaccia

Mezzosoprano (+5)

Sophia Maeno

La civetta

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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