DVD now available on the Opus Arte label
The Cunning Little Vixen
The animated film of Janáček’s
opera
Music Director
Kent Nagano
Inspired by a 1920s newspaper cartoon character, Janáček’s opera returns to its roots with a specially-adapted version of the score prepared by Kent Nagano and Christophe Durrant for a new animated film by Geoff Dunbar
Singers of the European
Opera Centre
Vixen Sharpears
Christine Buffle The Forester Grant Doyle Dashwood Fox Richard
Coxon Harašta Keel Watson
Schoolmaster, Mosquito,
Grasshopper Peter Van Hulle Badger Andrew Foster-Williams
Forester’s Wife, Owl Katarina Giotas Cockerel
Richard Roberts Chief Hen Michelle Sheridan Woodpecker Mark Wilde
Additional Voices by the BBC Singers and the New London Children’s Choir (Musical Director, Ronald Corp) and with Matt Baker as Lapák the Dog
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester conducted by Kent Nagano
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“Music is a miraculous phenomenon, because it allows us freedom of imagination and an experience of human emotions in an ideal form. The film is a celebration of the content of Janáček’s music, his genius expressed through the brilliance of the score and the sensitivity he has in expressing the human spirit through his chosen characters - foxes, gamekeepers, chickens, badgers and poachers. The images created by Geoff Dunbar and his team are so critical, using the animation to show drama, humour and emotional depth. I think the film communicates in a very human, emotional, way. The characters are marvelously drawn of course, but somehow, the animated camera eye shows landscapes with a tremendous sense of perspective and dimension as well. It is a complete world, and all of us on the creative team hope that you will enjoy your visit to this magical, creative, profound world of Janáček’s imagination.”
KENT NAGANO
Also available in Spanish and Catalan
The Cunning Little Vixen has been developed by the European Opera Centre with funding from the European Union
BBC CLASSICAL MUSIC AND OPUS ARTE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LOS ANGELES OPERA PRESENT A HIGH EAGLE FILM ‘THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN’ MUSIC BY LEOS JANÁCEK CONDUCTED BY KENT NAGANO PERFORMED BY DEUTSCHES SYMPHONIE-ORCHESTER WITH SINGERS OF THE EUROPEAN OPERA CENTRE MUSIC PREPERATION CHRISTOPHE DURRANT CAST DIRECTED BY PETER MANIURA BBC PRODUCER RODNEY WILSON PRODUCER JACQUI DAVIES DVD EXECUTIVE FOR BBC JANE CARTER DVD PRODUCER JAMES WHITBOURN DIRECTED BY GEOFF DUNBAR