The Cunning Little Vixen

By Leoš Janáček

Warning: Performed in English with surtitles

Category: Theatre/Dance

Genre: Opera

Company:
Academy of Performing Arts

Venue:

Date and Time:
March 19, 21, 23, 7:30pm

Ticket Price:
150-85

Location:
HK Island

Nearest MTR Station:
Wan Chai

Ticketing By: HK Ticketing

Age Limitation: 6

This is probably the only opera based on a newspaper strip cartoon. After Janáček's housekeeper introduced the composer to the cartoon’s mischievous vixen, Miss Sharp Ears, Janáček set about transforming the comic strip characters with music that is truly uplifting, evoking the cycle of life and nature’s renewal. In the depths of the Moravian forest the forester captures a young female fox cub and takes her home as a pet for his son. She grows to maturity in captivity and soon shows that she has a mind of her own, creating havoc in the forester’s yard. She escapes to the forest and, after evicting the Badger from his home, sets about finding a mate and rearing a family. Though she comes to a tragic end the Forester sees another young cub looking much like her, and the cycle begins again.