The Cunning Little Vixen and recent (since 1980s) English versions of the opera's name. It was probably the German name, used for the 1965 Felsenstein film, that established the English "cunning little", ignoring the important double meaning in "Sharp-Ears." The first three audio recordings, all from the Czech company Supraphon (Neumann 1957, Gregor 1972, Neumann 1980) used, naturally, the original Czech name. Then Decca recorded the opera with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1981, and this widely circulated release made "The Cunning Little Vixen" the international, if inaccurate, standard. Notes Sources The Cunning Little Vixen The Cunning Little Vixen (; until the 1970s, generally referred
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