Who composed the opera 'The Cunning Little Vixen'?
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
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