The cunning little vixen [videorecording] : opera in three acts / coproduction Idéale Audience, Opéra national de Paris, NHK, with the participation of France 2 ; [composed] by Leoš Janáček ; libretto by the composer after the novella Liška Bystrouška by Rudolf Tésnohlídek ; musical director, Dennis Russell Davies ; directed by Don Kent ; produced by Françoise Gazio.
Bonus features (20 min.) include a documentary An encounter: backstage at the Paris Opéra, interviews with Gerard Mortier, the director of the Opéra national de Paris, with André Engel and Elena Tsallagova (in French with optional subtitles) Booklet with program notes in English, French and German (12 p.) inserted in container. 3078388. Elena Tsallagova (Vixen) ; Jukka Rasilainen (Forester) ; Michèle Lagrange (Wife/Owl) ; Hannah Esther Minutillo (Fox) ; David Kuebler (Schoolmaster) ; Roland Bracht (Parson) ; Paul Gay (Harašta) ; Orchestra, Chorus and Operatic Studio of the Opéra national de Paris ; Choir of Hauts-de-Seine; Children chorus of the Opéra national de Paris. Recorded live at the Opéra Bastille, Paris in Nov., 2008.
Summary:
A story featuring a forester and a vixen, who is first adopted by him and then escapes to the forest where she is wooed by a fox.
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