07:30 pm | Nationaltheater

DAS SCHLAUE FÜCHSLEIN (PŘÍHODY LIŠKY BYSTROUŠKY)

Leoš Janáček

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DAS SCHLAUE FÜCHSLEIN (PŘÍHODY LIŠKY BYSTROUŠKY)

Premiere at 30. January 2022

Composer Leoš Janáček. Text by the composer based on Rudolf Těsnohlídek’s serialized novella Die Abenteuer der schlauen Füchsin.


Opera in three acts (1924)

recommended for 14 years and older

In Czech language. With surtitles in German and English language. New Production.

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.

Cast

  • Bayerisches Staatsorchester
  • Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper
  • Children's chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper