| Opéra national de Paris | ||
| Dennis Russell Davies | Conductor | |
| André Engel | Director | |
| Nicky Rieti | Set Designer | |
| Elizabeth Neumuller | Costume Designer | |
| André Diot | Lighting Designer | |
| Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris | ||
| Dominique Muller | Dramaturgy | |
| Françoise Grès | Choreography | |
| Chœur de l'Atelier Lyrique de l'Academy | ||
| Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine | ||
| Chœur d'enfants de l'Opéra National de Paris | ||
| Alessandro Di Stefano | Choirmaster / chorus director | |
| Elena Tsallagova | Soprano | Vixen (Bystrouška) |
| Jukka Rasilainen | Baritone | Forester |
| Hannah-Esther Minutillo | Mezzo-soprano | Fox (Zlatohřbítek) |
| Roland Bracht | Bass | Parson |
| David Kuebler | Tenor | Schoolmaster |
| Letitia Singleton | Mezzo-soprano | Lapák |
| Slawomir Szychowiak | Bass | Badger |
| Paul Cremazy | Tenor | Mosquito |
| Michèle Lagrange | Soprano | Owl, Forester’s wife |
| Elisa Cenni | Mezzo-soprano | Rooster, Jay |
| Natacha Finette-Constantin | Soprano | Chocholka |
| Paul Gay | Bass-baritone | Harašta |
| Xenia Fenice d'Ambrosio | Contralto | Woodpecker |
| Nicolas Marie | Tenor | Pásek |
| Anne-Sophie Ducret | Soprano | Mrs Paškova |
It’s no easy matter taming a vixen! The gamekeeper, who introduces one into his household, learns this the hard way, especially as the animal in question is particularly cunning, feminist and even revolutionary, calling on the hens in the barnyard to revolt against the cockerel and “forge a new world”! Alas, while freedom allows her to find love, the little vixen will pay a high price...
Premiered in Brno in 1924, Leoš Janáček’s piece, with orchestration as lush as the nature it describes, is a score apart in the history of opera, where foxes, crickets and grasshoppers, dogs and woodpeckers are rarely the heroes of the story.
A fairy tale fable, this Cunning Little Vixen an allegory of human life, a hymn celebrating the eternal renewal of life and nature.
Reviews of The Cunning Little Vixen directed by André Engel
