Based on a popular comic strip of the 20s, The Cunning Little Vixen involves two parallel tales of a forester and a vixen he had once caught.
Based on a popular comic strip of the 20s, The Cunning Little Vixen involves two parallel tales of a forester and a vixen he had once caught.
It expresses attitudes to love and nature variously described as pantheistic and as an early concern with the ecology. Using elements from Slovak folk music and a sensitivity to the inflections of the Slovak dialect, Leoš Janáček bridges the gap between romanticism and modernism in music.
A highly original composer, he completed this opera in 1924 when he was in his seventies and when he died four years (and two great operas) later loved it so much that he left instructions for extracts to be played at his funeral.
This is an awardwinning production from Theatre Musical de Paris-Chatelet. The Cunning Little Vixen will be showing at Filmfest at Eden Grove lecture theatre next Tuesday at 7pm France (1995) Slovak with English subtitles. 98 minutes.
Composer: Leoš Janáček; Director: Nicholas Hytner (stage); Brian Large (video) With Thomas Allen and Eva Jennis, conducted by Charles Mackerras.
