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Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen in its Glimmerglass Debut

Jul. 17, 2018

Janáček's <em>The Cunning Little Vixen</em> in its Glimmerglass Debut

From July 8 to August 25, the Glimmerglass Festival mounts a new production of Leoš Janáček's beloved opera The Cunning Little Vixen with a new English translation by Kelley Rourke. Joseph Colaneri conducts and E. Loren Meeker directs this work in its Glimmerglass debut.

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 (1922-1923)
libretto (Cz) by Leoš Janáček
translation (En) by Kelley Rourke
Revised by Jiri Zahradka
for 8 sopranos (3 from the chorus), mezzo-soprano, 2 altos, 3 tenors (one from chorus), baritone, 3 basses, children soloists, corps du ballet, SATB choir and children’s choir
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110’

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