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The tale of a quick witted fox and her escape from confinement for a life in the forest that is by turns joyful and violent, The Cunning Little Vixen is an unsentimental parable of death and rebirth that lives through the instinctive and immediate world of nature, animal and human, which Janacek loved so much. Melly Stil's production for Glyndebourne find the "delicate balance between whimsy and mysticism" (Daily Telegraph) at the heart of the opera, which Vladimir Jurowski conducts "with lustrous style: you can hear the birds in the score, feel the sunshine and thrill to the starlit night sky in the final scene." (Opera Today)

Leos Janácek
THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN

Vixen Sharp Ears – Lucy Crowe
Fox – Emma Bell
Forester – Segey Leiferkus
Parson / Badger – Mischa Schelomianski
Cricket – Sebastian Davies
Grasshopper – Beatrice Watkins
Mosquito – Adrian Thompson
Frog – Orlando Woscholski
Young Vixen Sharp Ears – Louise Moseley
Forester’s Wife / Owl – Jean Rigby
Dog – Lucie Špicková

The Glyndebourne Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor

Melly Still, stage director

Recorded live at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, June 2012

Bonus:
- Creating Janácek’s The Cunning Little Vixen

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: LPCM 2.0 / DTS 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: English, French, German, Korean
Running time: 119 mins
No. of DVDs: 1