Steen Michael (EN) — Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen

Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen краткое содержание

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The Cunning Little Vixen, premiered in Brno in 1924, is by Janacek the Czech composer. His other operas included Jenufa, Kat'a Kabanova, The Makropulos Case and an opera based on Dostoyevsky's novel From the House of the Dead. The fox Goldenstripe seduces the vixen BytrouA ka, Sharp-Ears. She outwits the forester but is shot by a tramp. Animals and insects, including a badger, a dog, a frog, crickets, caterpillars, mosquitos, a Dragonfly, Owl, Jay and Woodpecker, stand proxy for human beings, such as the forester, innkeeper, priest, and schoolmaster. Janek encountered all these near Hukvaldy, his birthplace. This is not a pantomime. The moral of this fable, which moves between the forest and the pub garden, concerns mortality, the procreation and rejuvenation which occurs in the animal kingdom normality of death and the cycle of. Children mime and dance the parts of animals, like the insects. Hens and flies portray the proletariat and take collective action to support equality and feminism. Capitalists like the Badger are defeated. Inspired by the sound of Moravian folksongs, speech melody and, for example, Debussy's La Mer, Janek developed a unique musical style in Western European music. His works were promoted by the conductor Charles Mackerras.