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Chamber Version of Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen Takes Center Stage at Opera Holland Park

Jul. 15, 2021

Performances of Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen continue this month at Opera Holland Park. The production, conducted by Jessica Cottis, and directed by Stephen Barlow, uses the version for reduced forces by Jonathan Dove.

Premiered in 1924 at the National Theater Brno, Janáček’s Vixen explores the timeless themes of love and unity through human and animal realms. Janáček himself characterized the opera as a “forest idyll," one that would awaken the notion of the unity of life – both human and animal. The work is based on a popular serialized illustrated comic, first published in 1920, which Janáček was instantly inspired to adapt for the stage. His research for Vixen brought him to study bird and animal calls, assigning each an instrument or motif, and included close observation of a vixen’s life and routine in her den.


("How Sharp-Ears Was Caught" from The Cunning Little Vixen/Leoš Janáček/
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Sir Simon Rattle, conductor)

To learn more about Leoš Janáček, please visit universaledition.com.

Leoš Janáček
The Cunning Little Vixen (1922-23)
an opera in three acts
arranged for chamber orchestra by Jonathan Dove (1998)
2S.A.T.Bar.2B
Mixed Choir (SATB) and Children's Choir (SA)
1.1.1.1-2.1.1.0-perc.hp.acc-str.quin
110'

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