16 Dece,ber 2022, 7:30pm, Musiktheater im Revier, Gelsenkirchen, Germany Leoš Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (premiere) Directed by: Michael Schulz, music director: Rasmus Baumann Cast: Bele Kumberger (Vixen), Lina Hoffmann (Forester’s Wife, Fox), Johannes Martin Kränzle / Piotr Prochera (Forester), Adam Temple-Smith (Schoolmaster, Mosquito, Cock), Philipp Kranjc / Yevhen Rakhmanin (Priest, Badger), Yancheng Chen / … Read more
15 October 2022, 7pm, Halle E, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna Theater an der Wien Leoš Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (premiere) Directed by: Stefan Herheim, music director: Giedrė Šlekytė Cast: Mélissa Petit (Vixen), Jana Kurucová (Fox), Milan Siljanov (Forester), Alžběta Vomáčková (Forester’s Wife, Hen, Owl, Innkeeper’s Wife), Marcell Bakonyi (Poacher), Ya-Chung Huang (Schoolmaster, Mosquito, Dog, Cock, Woodpecker), Levente … Read more
23 July 2022, 7pm, Opera House, Toitoi: Hawke’s Bay Arts & Events Centre, Hastings, New Zealand Festival Opera & Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival Leoš Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (premiere, semi-staged performance) Directed by: John Wilkie, music director: José Aparicio Cast: Joanna Foote (Vixen), Anna Pierard (Fox), Samuel McKeever (Forester), Tomairangi Henare (Parson), Lila LJ Crichton (Schoolmaster), … Read more
18 February 2022, 7:30pm, London Coliseum, London English National Opera Leoš Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (premiere of a new production) Directed by: Jamie Manton, music director: Martyn Brabbins Cast: Sally Matthews (Vixen), Pumeza Matshikiza (Fox), Lester Lynch (Forester), Madeleine Shaw (Forester’s Wife, Owl), Alan Oke (Schoolmaster, Mosquito), Clive Bayley (Priest, Badger), Ossian Huskinson (A Poacher), John Findon (Innkeeper, … Read more
30 January 2022, 7pm, Nationaltheater, Munich, Germany Bayerische Staatsoper Leoš Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (premiere of a new production) Directed by: Barrie Kosky, music director: Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla Cast: Elena Tsallagova (Vixen), Angela Brower (Fox), Wolfgang Koch (Forester), Lindsay Ammann (Forester’s Wife, Owl), Jonas Hacker (Rechtor, Komár), Martin Snell (Schoolmaster, Mosquito), Milan Siljanov (Harašta), Caspar Singh (Pásek), … Read more
16 December 2018, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany Leoš Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (premiere) Directed by: Yuval Sharon, music director: Justin Brown Cast: Uliana Alexyuk / Agnieszka Tomaszewska (Vixen), Dilara Bastar / Alexandra kadurina (Fox), Andrew Finden / Armin Kolarczyk (Forester), Cameron Becker / Klaus Schneider (Schoolmaster / Mosquito), Konstantin Gorny / Nathanael Travernier (Priest / … Read more
30 June 2018, Theater Aachen, Aachen, Germany in collaboration with Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln Leoš Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (premiere) Directed by: Tamara Heimbrock, music director: Raimund Laufen Cast: Yoonsoo Kil / Liza Sparovec (Vixen), Andrea Graff / Minyoung Kim (Fox), Rein Saar / Jeong Daegyun (Forester), Takahiro Namiki / Jiyuan Qiu (Schoolmaster, Mosquito) … Read more
After 45 years, Leoš Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen returned to the stage of Theater Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The premiere on 24 March has already received a very positive critical response. The praise has concerned mainly the direction by Mascha Pörzgen, who perfectly balanced both levels of the story – a beast fable and an allegorical drama – and the performance of … Read more
On 3 March, Theater Koblenz (Rhineland-Palatinate) presented a new production of Leoš Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen. As the director Alexander von Pfeil put it, he had decided to focus not only on the depiction of the natural world, but also on revealing the Kafkaesque traces of the opera. The conductor is the theatre’s music director and chief conductor … Read more
One of the four operas presented this season at Opera Santa Barbara, California, is Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen. The new production by Crystal Manich, which is dedicated to both adult and children spectators (which is also one of the reasons why it is sung in an English), received two performances – on 3rd and 5th March at … Read more
