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Opera

Foxie!
The cunning
little vixen
Leoš Janáček

Presentation
Opera

Vixens aren’t made to be pets

‘Is this a fairytale or is it all true?’ At the end of The Cunning Little Vixen, the forester muses on the wonder of the eternal renewal of nature. The 68-year-old Leoš Janáček drew his inspiration for this dazzling opera from a ‘strip cartoon’ on the joys and sorrows of the vixen Bystroushka that appeared in a newspaper in Brno in 1920. This ‘Czech Midsummer Night’s Dream’, in which, like Shakespeare, he poetically entwines fantasy and reality, is his most cheerful and youthful opera. The Belgian artist and director Christophe Coppens inserts an added element of darkness and captures this in an original all-embracing concept in which youngsters and their experiments come into conflict with the adult world in a community that establishes its own nature-oriented rites. The young Italian-French conductor Antonello Manacorda, one of the discoveries of the last La Monnaie season, is sure to give us a fresh and dynamic reading of this extremely lyrical score.

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Location

Palais de la Monnaie at Tour & Taxis

Running time

ca 1:30 (no interval)

Prices

Cat 1 - € 129 / Cat 2 - € 99
Cat 3 - € 84 / Cat 4 - € 59
Cat 5 - € 34 / Cat 6 - € 10

Language

Sung in Czech
Surtitles in Dutch and in French

Presentation

Pre-performance talks 30' before the start of the performances by Antonio Cuenca Ruiz (in French) & Gert Haelterman (in Dutch)

Streaming

Live on ArteConcert
30.03.2017

Streaming on lamonnaie.be
19.04 > 09.05.2017

Radio broadcast Klara
22.04.2017

Radio broadcast Musiq’3
22.04.2017

« … réussite de Coppens : tout néophyte qu’il soit, il ne se contente pas d’illustrer le livret, mais sait aussi traduire en images la musique. »
— La Libre Belgique

« le jeune chef italien Antonel- lo Manacorda et l’orchestre de la Monnaie, en grande forme : une heure trente de bonheur avec de formidables solistes. »
— Le Soir

Gallery

Gallery

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Foxie! - Inleiding door Gert Haelterman by La Monnaie De Munt
Foxie! - Introduction par Antonio Cuenca Ruiz by La Monnaie De Munt
Dates & tickets

Dates

Cast
Cast

Conductor ANTONELLO MANACORDA Director & costumesCHRISTOPHE COPPENSSet designCHRISTOPHE COPPENS & i.s.m.architectenLightingPETER VAN PRAETDramaturgieREINDER POLSMovement coachDENNI SAYERS Chorus mastersMARTINO FAGGIANI & BENOÎT GIAUX

Revírník (Forester) ANDREW SCHROEDER
Revírníková (Forester’s wife) SARA FULGONI
Rechtor (Schoolmaster) JOHN GRAHAM-HALL
Farář (Parson) ALEXANDER VASSILIEV
Harašta VINCENT LE TEXIER
Pásek (Innkeeper) YVES SAELENS
Bystrouška (Vixen) LENNEKE RUITEN
Pásková (Innkeeper’s wifre) MIREILLE CAPELLE
Lišák (Fox) ELEONORE MARGUERRE
Mala Bystrouška (Young vixen)MARIA PORTELA LARISCH
FrantíkLOGAN LOPEZ GONZALEZ
PepíkMARION BAUWENS
LapákKRIS BELLIGH
KohoutWILLEM VAN DER HEYDEN
ChocholkaVIRGINIE LÉONARD
CvrčekMARION BAUWENS
KobylkaLOGAN LOPEZ GONZALEZ
SkokánekHELEEN GOEMINNE
DatelBIRGITTE BØNDING
KomárALAIN-PIERRE WINGELINCKX
JezevecALEXANDER VASSILIEV
SovaBEATA MORAWSKA
SojkaLIEVE JACOBS
Solo Liščička MARGARETA KÖLLNER

La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and Chorus & MM Academy

PRODUCTION De Munt / La Monnaie

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