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Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Robert Kružík

Stage director

Stage director (+2)

Jiří Heřman

Costume designer

Set designer (+2)

Alexandra Grusková

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+2)

Daniel Tesař

Chorusmaster

Klára Složilová Roztočilová

Chorusmaster (+1)

Valeria Maťašová

Dramaturge

Dramaturge (+3)

Patricie Částková

Soprano (+1)

Michaela Kušteková

Cunning Vixen

Jana Šrejma Kačírková

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Jana Hrochová

The Fox Zlatohrbitek

Baritone (+4)

Svatopluk Sem

Forester

Bass (+3)

Jiří Sulženko

Tenor (+4)

Petr Levíček

Schoolmaster

Bass (+6)

David Nykl

Badger

Jan Šťáva

Soprano (+2)

Martina Mádlová

Daniela Straková-Šedrlová

Baritone (+2)

Kornél Mikecz

Pasek

Petr Karas

Hana Kopřivová Šumpíková

Mrs. Paskova

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Jitka Zerhauová

Zdislava Bočková

Pepik

Eva Štěrbová

Cricket child

Soprano

Eva Daňhelová

Baritone (+5)

Roman Hoza

Harasta

Grasshopper child

Barbora Šancová

Frantik

Child vocalist

Petr Hrůša

Frog

Stanislav Klusáček

Mezzo-soprano (+1)

Alena Sobolová

Cock

Andrea Široká

Chocholka

Mosquito

Priest

Janáčkovo divadlo

Conductor (+2)

Marko Ivanović

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Dragan Stojčevski

Chorus

Chlidren’s Choir Brno

Zdeňka Jetelinová

Bystrouaka's child

Julie Šebestová

Mezzo-soprano (+5)

Václava Krejčí Housková

Ondřej Koplík

Forester's wife

Aleš Viklický

Jitka Klečanská

Veronika Hajnová

Woodpecker

No opera is so connected with Brno and its surroundings as Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, and so the new production, which ceremonially opens the 6th year of the festival, will be the work of the National Theatre Brno’s Janáček Opera. For the first time one of the best Czech directors, Jiří Heřman, is entering the world of Janáček’s operas. Each of Janáček’s operas is original and the Vixen is no different, with human and animal lives interwoven on stage. It is lyrical and melodic, sparkling with humour, kind and with a little of Janáček’s prickliness at the same time and and taking on the earthiness and humane philosophy of life of the eternal cycle of life. At the beginning of the story about the cunning vixen was the decision by the Brno editors of the Lidove noviny newspaper to provide their readers with cartoons with humorous texts. The Janáček household were regular readers of Lidový noviny and the drawn stories caught the composer’s interest, but from the original chapters of the series he chose only ten. Těsnohlídek’s tale ends with the wedding of Bystrouška and Zlatohřbítek. However Janáček resolved to make a significant change compared to the original draft and allowed the main character to die, since as a true dramatist he felt the need for a catharsis.

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