FULL THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN Sao Paulo 2023 Vinícius Atique, Carla Caramujo, Denise de Freitas

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: The Cunning Little Vixen or Czech: Příhody lišky Bystroušky   
• Composer: Janacek Leos  
• Libretto: Leos Janacek    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Theatro São Pedro, Sao Paulo, Brazil  
• Recorded: July 28, 2023
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Vinícius Atique, Carla Caramujo, Denise de Freitas, Giovanni Tristacci, Gustavo Lassen, Saulo Javan, Nathália Serrano, Larissa Guimarães, Thayana Roverso
• Conductor: Ira Levin   
• Orchestra: Orquestra do Theatro São Pedro  
• Choreographer: Franklin Dávalos  
• Stage Director: André Heller-Lopes  
• Stage Designer: Fábio Retti  
• Costume Designer: Renato Theobaldo  
• Lighting Designer: Anderson Bueno  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Theatro São Pedro  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  The Cunning Little Vixen (original title Příhody lišky Bystroušky or Tales of Vixen Sharp-Ears in English), is a three-act Czech-language opera by Leoš Janáček completed in 1923 to a libretto the composer himself adapted from a novella by Rudolf Těsnohlídek.

  The opera’s libretto was adapted by the composer from a 1920 serialized novella, Liška Bystrouška, by Rudolf Těsnohlídek, which was first published in the newspaper Lidové noviny (with illustrations by Stanislav Lolek).[1] For the title of the opera, Příhody means tales; lišky is the genitive of vixen. Bystroušky, still genitive, is the pun sharp, having the double meaning of pointed, like fox ears, and clever. The opera first became familiar outside Czechoslovakia in a 1927 German adaptation by Max Brod who provided the new name Das schlaue Füchslein, by which Germans still know it and which in English means The Cunning Little Vixen.

  Synopsis
  Act 1
  In the forest, the animals and insects are playing and dancing. The forester enters and lies down against a tree for a nap. A curious vixen cub (often sung by a young girl), inquisitively chases a frog right into the lap of the surprised forester who forcibly takes the vixen home as a pet. Time passes (in the form of an orchestral interlude) and we see the vixen, now grown up into a young adult (and sung by a soprano) tied up in the forester’s yard with the conservative old dachshund. Fed up with life in confinement, the vixen chews through her rope, attacks the rooster and hen, kills the other chickens, jumps over the fence and runs off to freedom.

  Act 2
  The vixen takes over a badger’s home and kicks him out. At the inn, the parson, the forester, and the schoolmaster drink and talk about their mutual infatuation with the gypsy girl Terynka. The drunken schoolmaster leaves the inn and mistakes a sunflower behind which the vixen is hiding for Terynka, professing his devotion to her. The forester, also on his way home, sees the vixen and fires two shots at her, sending her running. Later, the vixen, coming into her adulthood, meets a charming boy fox, and they retire to the badger’s home. An unexpected pregnancy and a forest full of gossipy creatures necessitate their marriage, which rounds out the act.

  Act 3
  The poacher Harašta is engaged to Terynka and is out hunting in preparation for their marriage. He sets a fox trap, which the numerous fox and vixen cubs mock. Harašta, watching from a distance, shoots and kills the vixen, sending her children running. At Harašta’s wedding, the forester sees the vixen’s fur, which Harašta gave to Terynka as a wedding present, and flees to the forest to reflect. He returns to the place where he met the vixen, and sits at the tree, grieving the loss of both the vixen and Terynka. His grief grows until, just as in the beginning of the opera, a frog unexpectedly jumps in his lap, the grandson of the one who did so in Act 1. This reassurance of the cycle of death bringing new life gives his heart a deep peace.

  Quoted from Wikipedia

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