The Cunning Little Vixen The Cunning Little Vixen The Cunning Little Vixen (; until the 1970s, generally referred to in English as Adventures of Vixen Sharp-Ears ) is a Czech language opera by Leoš Janáček, composed 1921 to 1923. Its libretto was adapted by the composer from a 1920 serialized novella, "Liška Bystrouška", by Rudolf Těsnohlídek, which was first published in the newspaper "Lidové noviny" (with illustrations by Stanislav Lolek). The opera incorporates Moravian folk music and rhythms as it recounts the life of a clever (alternative reading: sharp-eared) fox and accompanying wildlife, as well as a few humans, and their small adventures while
Boris Godunov (opera) – First performance of the Shostakovich orchestration The premiere of the Shostakovich orchestration of 1940 of Pavel Lamm's vocal score took place on 4 November 1959 at the Kirov Theatre. Sergey Yeltsin conducted. The cast included Boris Shtokolov (Boris). "Note: Musicologists are often not in agreement on the terms used to refer to the two authorial versions of "Boris Godunov". Editors Pavel Lamm and Boris Asafyev used "preliminary redaction" and "principal redaction" for the 1st and 2nd versions, respectively, and David Lloyd-Jones designated them "initial" and "definitive." This article, aiming for utmost objectivity, uses "original" and "revised."" The differences in