Opera
Foxie!
The cunning
little vixen
Leoš Janáček
Vixens aren’t made to be pets
‘Is this a fairytale or is it all true?’ At the end of The Cunning Little Vixen, the forester muses on the wonder of the eternal renewal of nature. The 68-year-old Leoš Janáček drew his inspiration for this dazzling opera from a ‘strip cartoon’ on the joys and sorrows of the vixen Bystroushka that appeared in a newspaper in Brno in 1920. This ‘Czech Midsummer Night’s Dream’, in which, like Shakespeare, he poetically entwines fantasy and reality, is his most cheerful and youthful opera. The Belgian artist and director Christophe Coppens inserts an added element of darkness and captures this in an original all-embracing concept in which youngsters and their experiments come into conflict with the adult world in a community that establishes its own nature-oriented rites. The young Italian-French conductor Antonello Manacorda, one of the discoveries of the last La Monnaie season, is sure to give us a fresh and dynamic reading of this extremely lyrical score.
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Dates
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Fri 17 Mar 2017
Time
20:00
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Sun 19 Mar 2017
Time
15:00
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Tue 21 Mar 2017
Time
20:00
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Thu 23 Mar 2017
Time
20:00
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Sat 25 Mar 2017
Time
20:00
Infos
MM Community Experience
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Tue 28 Mar 2017
Time
20:00
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Thu 30 Mar 2017
Time
20:00
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Fri 31 Mar 2017
Time
20:00
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Sun 02 Apr 2017
Time
15:00
Cast
Conductor ANTONELLO MANACORDA Director & costumesCHRISTOPHE COPPENSSet designCHRISTOPHE COPPENS & i.s.m.architectenLightingPETER VAN PRAETDramaturgieREINDER POLSMovement coachDENNI SAYERS Chorus mastersMARTINO FAGGIANI & BENOÎT GIAUX
Revírník (Forester) ANDREW SCHROEDER
Revírníková (Forester’s wife) SARA FULGONI
Rechtor (Schoolmaster) JOHN GRAHAM-HALL
Farář (Parson) ALEXANDER VASSILIEV
Harašta VINCENT LE TEXIER
Pásek (Innkeeper) YVES SAELENS
Bystrouška (Vixen) LENNEKE RUITEN
Pásková (Innkeeper’s wifre) MIREILLE CAPELLE
Lišák (Fox) ELEONORE MARGUERRE
Mala Bystrouška (Young vixen)MARIA PORTELA LARISCH
FrantíkLOGAN LOPEZ GONZALEZ
PepíkMARION BAUWENS
LapákKRIS BELLIGH
KohoutWILLEM VAN DER HEYDEN
ChocholkaVIRGINIE LÉONARD
CvrčekMARION BAUWENS
KobylkaLOGAN LOPEZ GONZALEZ
SkokánekHELEEN GOEMINNE
DatelBIRGITTE BØNDING
KomárALAIN-PIERRE WINGELINCKX
JezevecALEXANDER VASSILIEV
SovaBEATA MORAWSKA
SojkaLIEVE JACOBS
Solo Liščička MARGARETA KÖLLNER
La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and Chorus & MM Academy
PRODUCTION De Munt / La Monnaie
