DAS SCHLAUE FÜCHSLEIN (PŘÍHODY LIŠKY BYSTROUŠKY)

Opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček (1924)

Composer Leoš Janáček. Text by the composer based on Rudolf Těsnohlídek’s serialized novella, Vixen Sharp Ears.
In tschechischer Sprache · Mit Übertiteln in deutscher und englischer Sprache. New Production.

Premiere at 30. January 2022

Saturday, 17. June 2023, 07:30 pm o'clock – 09:15 pm o'clock, Nationaltheater.

Duration est. 1 hours 45 minutes

Subscription-Serie 19, Family Performance

Prices K , € 132 / 115 / 95 / 74 / 52 / 30 / 14 / 10

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Introductions to Das schlaue Füchslein will take place on 11, 16.7.22, 1 hour before the start of each performance on the 1st tier in the vestibule to the royal box.
Please note: Seating is limited, duration approx. 20 min, minimum distance at the visitors' own responsibility.

Conductor	Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Production	Barrie Kosky
Set Design	Michael Levine
Costume Design	Victoria Behr
Lighting	Franck Evin
Choruses	Stellario Fagone
Dramaturgy	Katja Leclerc

Förster	Wolfgang Koch
Die Frau Försterin	Lindsay Ammann
Der Schulmeister	Jonas Hacker
Der Pfarrer	Martin Snell
Haraschta	Milan Siljanov
Pasek	Liam Bonthrone
Füchslein Schlaukopf	Elena Tsallagova
Frau Pasek	Mirjam Mesak
Fuchs	Angela Brower
Das junge Füchslein Schlaukopf *	Solist des Kinderchors
Frantik *	Solist des Kinderchors
Pepik *	Solist des Kinderchors
Dackel	Xenia Puskarz Thomas
Hahn	Joel Williams
Schopfhenne	Elmira Karakhanova
Grille *	Solist des Kinderchors
Heuschreck *	Solist des Kinderchors
Frosch *	Solist des Kinderchors
Specht	Xenia Puskarz Thomas
Mücke	Jonas Hacker
Dachs	Martin Snell
Eule	Lindsay Ammann
Häher	Mirjam Mesak
Junge Füchse	Kinderchor der Bayerischen Staatsoper

Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper

Children's chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper

One of the most touching and unsentimental love scenes of opera history is not between two people, but rather between two erotically inexperienced foxes. Leoš Janáček affords their tête-à-tête the unrepeatable magic of the “first time”. His libretto based on a picture story tells the tale of the young vixen, who is caught by the forester in his yard instigating his chickens to revolt, before she bites through their throat and takes off, runs the badger out of his sett, marries the fox, brings numerous cubs into the world and ultimately is shot by the poacher.

Director Barrie Kosky raises the metamorphosis to the precept of his staging, and in dreamlike imagery conjures up the transforming power of memory. The entire opera relates the desire for grand reconciliation – no less than that between the worlds of nature and culture, which the piece also reflects musically refined and multi-interlayered.