Yvonne (cow) Yvonne (cow) Yvonne is a brown-white cow who in 2011 escaped from her farmer in Mühldorf, Germany, attracting media attention as she hid in the woods for many weeks. Farmers, police, and animal-rights activists were unable to find or capture her. Yvonne, born in 2005, lived as a dairy cow for a mountain farmer in the Liesertal valley in the Austrian Alps. In March 2011 she was sold to a farmer in Aschau am Inn, Bavaria, who planned to fatten and slaughter her. On 24 May 2011 Yvonne escaped from her electric-fenced pasture and hid in woods near the villages
Yvonne, Prinzessin von Burgund ceremonies become a farce. In the end, Yvonne, still silent, is killed during a banquet in her honour. Yvonne, Prinzessin von Burgund Yvonne, Prinzessin von Burgund ("Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy") is an opera in four acts composed by Boris Blacher to a German-language libretto by the composer based on Witold Gombrowicz's 1935 Polish play "" (Yvonne, Burgundy Princess). Composed in 1972, it was Blacher's last opera. It premiered on 15 September 1973 at the Opernhaus Wuppertal, directed by Kurt Horres. The story is set in the royal court of an imaginary country and combines elements of tragic farce, fantasy, and