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	The Cunning Little Vixen - Leoš Janacek
		In a clearly feminist statement, the Vixen urges the hens to revolt; when that fails she kills the rooster and flees to the woods.
		The main exceptions are the duet between the Fox and the Vixen, a shimmering dialogue of courtship and love, and the final aria of the Forester.
		Throughout, the orchestral sound is rhapsodic, laced with the pastoral rhythms of the forest, from the buzz of insects to a sense of peaceful contemplation.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera/Cunning.htm (652 words)

	15. Concerning the Beast Folk. Wells, H.G. 1896. The Island of Doctor Moreau
		Beyond these general characters their heads had little in common; each preserved the quality of its particular species: the human mark distorted but did not hide the leopard, the ox, or the sow, or other animal or animals, from which the creature had been moulded.
		The hands were always malformed; and though some surprised me by their unexpected human appearance, almost all were deficient in the number of the digits, clumsy about the finger-nails, and lacking any tactile sensibility.
		At first I had a shivering horror of the brutes, felt all too keenly that they were still brutes; but insensibly I became a little habituated to the idea of them, and moreover I was affected by Montgomery’s attitude towards them.
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	The Cunning Little Vixen
		The Cunning Little Vixen (Příhody Liky Bystrouky in Czech) is an opera by Leo Janáček, with a libretto adapted by the composer from short stories written by Rudolf Tenohlídek.
		This is Janáček's lightest opera, and, despite the titular vixen's death at the end of the work, it stands in contrast to the often brutally serious nature of operas such as Jenůfa and Kátya Kabanová.
		At Janáček's request, the final scene from The Cunning Little Vixen was performed at his funeral in 1928.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/t/th/the_cunning_little_vixen.html (163 words)

	Leos Janacek
		The Vixen endures the morose sexual advances of the Dog, and defends herself vigorously against the baiting of the Forester’s children.
		The Vixen at first outwits him, but becomes carried away by her exalted defiance of man, and is shot.
		According to the Janáček's maid, Marie Stejskalová, it was her laughing at the newspaper cartoons of the adventures of vixen Sharpears that drew her master to the subject of Příhody Lišky Bystroušky. The story which appeared in 1920 the Brno newspaper Lidové noviny was itself inspired by a set of drawings by Stanislav Lolek.
	www.leosjanacek.co.uk /vixen.htm (955 words)

	The Cunning Little Vixen tickets - The Cunning Little Vixen concerts sports theater events tickets
		The Cunning Little Vixen (Príhody Lišky Bystroušky, literally "The Adventures of Vixen Sharp-Ears," in Czech) is an opera by Leoš Janácek, with a libretto adapted by the composer from a serialized novella (daily comic) by Rudolf Tesnohlídek, which was first published in newspaper Lidové noviny.
		It was premiered on 6 November 1924 in Brno.This is Janácek's lightest opera, and, despite the titular vixen's death at the end of the work, it stands in contrast to the often brutally serious nature of operas such as Jenufa and Káta Kabanová.
		The Vixen (soprano), in baby (cub?) form (usually sung by a young girl I believe), quisitivly chases a frog right into the lap of the surprised forester who forcibly takes her home as a pet.
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	vixen - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Male red foxes share their territories with one to four females, called vixens.
		In most years, only the highest-ranking vixen, who is also the...
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	vixen - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Male red foxes share their territories with one to four females, called vixens.
		In most years, only the highest-ranking vixen, who is also the...
		bitch, cow, dam, doe, ewe, filly, heifer, hind, jenny, lioness, mare, nanny goat, sow, tigress, vixen, capon, cob, cock, cockerel, drake, gander,...
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	LondonTown.com \| London Events \| British Youth Opera - The Cunning Little Vixen London
		As you stare across the river at this bustling, stylish, multi-faceted venue, it’s hard to believe that this riverside warehouse was once a reprocessing plant for the Oxo Company, ripe for demolition only a few decades ago.
		If you happen to be with the kids on the South bank this summer this is a great little eatery in which to recharge their batteries.
		Morley College, one of the oldest adult education colleges in the country, dates back to the early 1880s when it was set up by visionary, Emma Cons, and her supporters.
	www.londontown.com /LondonEvents/BritishYouthOpera-TheCunningLittleVixen/27219 (893 words)

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	Guardian \| The Cunning Little Vixen
		The opera - begun after the first world war - argues that violence, far from being confined to humanity, is an element in nature itself, while its animal characters embody an anthropomorphic satire on the shifting values of western culture.
		Much has been made of the Vixen's feisty feminism, but her progressive rhetoric is essentially a ploy to bring about the destruction of the Hens in the chicken run.
		The mating of the Vixen and the Fox is accompanied by some of Janacek's most sensual music, but any idea of sexual liberalism is rapidly quashed when the pair scamper off to be married by a Woodpecker.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4258438-103686,00.html (381 words)

	Willamette Week \| Culture \| Perf (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vixen stars soprano Ann Panagulias as Vixen Sharp-Ears and baritone Kristopher Irmiter as the Forester.
		Leos Janácek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen is the tale of the life of a young female fox and the trials she endures at the hands of humans and her fellow forest animals.
		And choreographer Hampton lost one young dancer who claimed she knew how to be a duck and how to be a lamb--but drew the line at understanding how to be a house.
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	Metroactive Stage \| 'The Cunning Little Vixen'
		In The Cunning Little Vixen, Czech playwright Leos Janácek composed a paean to nature and its consolations for mortality.
		The opera was inspired by an illustrated 1920s newspaper serial that depicted the adventures of a young vixen (a female fox) raised by a forester.
		The vixen (a kittenish and mischievous Wendy Loder) rejects the family dog's advances, attacks the farmer children who torment her, and, when threatened with a beating for killing the chickens, bites through her leash and escapes into the forest.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/06.06.02/vixen-0223.html (737 words)

	The Cunning Little Vixen : opera review
		Janacek's most lighthearted opera - based on the tale of Vixen Sharp Ears, published in instalments in the daily newspaper in his home town of Brno in the early 1920s - is a welcome return at ENO.
		Susan Gritton plays the vixen with great energy, though it is very difficult to hear her words - memories of Lesley Garrett as the supreme Sharp Ears are not easy to overcome.
		The caterpillar, the hedgehog, the exquisite young hare that unfortunately meets her end through the vixen...
	www.musicomh.com /opera/cunning-little-vixen.htm (284 words)

	Costume and Set Designs by Barry Kay \| "The Cunning Little Vixen" \| Opera in 3 Acts \| Reflections upon the Characters ...
		These reflections upon Janáček's characters in The Cunning Little Vixen - conjointly originating from both Colin Graham and Barry Kay - are evidence of the in-depth discussions and philosophical considerations, constituting the essence of a fruitful collaboration between the production director and the designer.
		"The Cunning Little Vixen" gave him a great deal of pleasure to write in his old age when he turned from the stark dramas that preceded it like so many men of genius to the beauties and relatives of Nature.
		In the last scene of the opera Janáček has identified himself with the Forester, the key figure of the opera which, while it may be a figment of his (the Forester's) imagination, it is in fact a profound expression of Janáček's philosophy.
	www.barry-kay-archive.org /DESIGN_WORKS/Indices/CLV/reflections.html (647 words)

	Walt Disney Concert Hall - Piece Detail
		The Cunning Little Vixen works well as a suite, in part due to its several symphonic pantomime sections.
		The closest approximations to standard Romantic arias are the declaration of love between the Fox and the Vixen, and the final epiphany of the Forester.
		At the end, the Forester becomes reconciled to the natural life cycle, as the Vixen dies, and he watches the Vixen's young child playing in the woods.
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	The Cunning Little Vixen @ Royal Opera House, London : opera review
		The composer admired the story of the half tame, half wild vixen Sharpears, based in a rural community, and Janácek was particularly enthusiastic about the way it jumped naturally from the human to the animal world.
		The role of the vixen Sharpears needs a lithe and appealing actress who can demonstrate through voice and movement both the charm and the viciousness of this wild creature.
		Dawn Upshaw, making her belated Covent Garden debut, filled the bill admirably, although at times she seemed to forget that she was an operatic heroine rather than the star of a Broadway musical.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/cunning-little-vixen-2.htm (575 words)

	Manchester International Festival - Festival Events
		For this unique family concert, the enchanting film version of Janácek's much-loved work 'The Cunning Little Vixen' will be screened for the first time with live accompaniment by the Hallé.
		In the heart warming story of Little Vixen Sharp Ears, great music and vivid animation magically combine in a moving tale of love, death and re-birth to create the first animated opera.
		The animated version of The Cunning Little Vixen was commissioned by BBC Television and co-produced with Opus Arte and Los Angeles Opera with the co-operation of the European Opera Centre;
	www.manchesterinternationalfestival.com /festival-events/gold-event.aspx?id=69875 (181 words)

	The Silver Fox (1968)
		This is even more true than usual as Hsia Wu's trapped-filled portion of his lair is ironically called "The Paradise." Unfortunately, this isn't a genre-fan's paradise by any means for director Hsu Cheng-hung is still stuck in the old fashioned swordplay mode he displayed previously in Temple of the Red Lotus and The Thundering Sword.
		It's a place where Fan Mei-sheng breaks out into Chinese opera song, future screen vixen Lily Ho runs around throwing jealous tantrums like a spoiled teenager and Chang Yi is a befuddled and impotent swordsman held back by indecision and the desire for everyone to just get along.
		It was the independent filmmakers like Corey Yuen, who had little choice with limited time and gear who made it into one of Hong Kong cinema's action trademarks.
	www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/silverfox_20060126.htm (1364 words)

	'Little Vixen' works its irresistible charms in S.F. Opera production
		The source was a novel, written to accompany a series of line drawings and serialized in a Czech daily, that mixes human and animal characters with all the gleeful ease of a fable by Aesop or La Fontaine.
		At its heart are Vixen Sharp-Ears, a sexy, evasive trickster who is every bit as good-hearted and predatory as nature made her, and the Forester, whose quest to capture the fox has a tinge of erotic desire about it.
		Among the standouts in an almost uniformly fine cast were mezzo-soprano Catherine Cook as the comically pathetic dog Lapák, bass-baritone Bojan Knezevic as the malevolent poacher Harasta, mezzo-soprano Judith Christin as the Forester's Wife, and bass Gregory Stapp and tenor Anthony Laciura as the Forester's drinking companions.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/14/DDGBF74FL61.DTL (969 words)

	Opera japonica/Reviews/DVD/The Cunning Little Vixen, 1995
		Jenis conveys the impish vixen brightly, though her youthful cruelty and mature maternalism do not come through.
		Here, he is so persnickety that he takes offense at mild teasing and hops down from his throne, leaving it to his antagonist.
		Technically, there is little to fault in the disc.
	www.operajaponica.org /reviews/dvd/vixen95dvd.htm (404 words)

	Art Film 2004 - The Cunning Little VixenArt Film 2004 - The Cunning Little Vixen (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Little Vixen Sharp Ears, follows her mother through the outskirts of the village, returning home to the forest-clad hills.
		The paths of the Vixen and the Forester cross and their lives are changed forever, in this dramatic story of love death and rebirth.
		The new version of Janáček's sublime score is arranged and conducted by Kent Nagano and the story's human and animal characters are voiced to great effect by a cast of talented young singers.
	www.artfilm.sk /history/film2004/vix.html (314 words)

	Amazon.com: The Cunning Little Vixen: Books: Rudolf Tesnohlidek,Maurice Sendak,Tatiana Firkusny,Maritza Morgan,Robert ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The eponymous vixen is trapped by a forester and raised for a time in his home, where she adapts for her own needs the ways of humans and their house pets.
		All her basest instincts are sharpened: she kills fowl less to feed her body than her pride; she flatters adoring young males for personal gain and leaves them heart-broken; she mouths church litany to allay the suspicions of woodland critics.
		That the whimsy is heavy-handed and the little vixen far from endearing may be the fault of the translation.
	www.amazon.com /Cunning-Little-Vixen-Rudolf-Tesnohlidek/dp/0374133468 (1109 words)

	Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen (In English) Opera in three acts. Libretto by the composer after the story by ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When I first heard that RNCM were doing Vixen as their autumn production my heart had a little flutter of concern.
		I well remembered a light lyric soprano, a former alumnus of the College who was a lovely Pamina and Susanna, who had been tempted by the role in the large London Coliseum and did her vocal chords no good at all.
		Her light soprano voice was even and expressive too and her animated acting was well matched by the suave fox of Sara Lawson; a little rounder of tone than her colleague but also with excellent legato and diction.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2006/Jul-Dec06/vixen0612.htm (727 words)

	classical music - andante - orchestral janÃ¡cek: josÃ© serebrier goes beyond the usual
		JanÃ¡cek rarely wrote for the orchestra alone, but Serebrier bolsters three favorites from among that small symphonic oeuvre with a set of suites and preludes from the operas Jenufa, The Cunning Little Vixen, The Makropoulos Case and From the House of the Dead.
		It opens with the highlight of the entire collection: the Talich/SmetÃ¡cek suite from The Cunning Little Vixen, which condenses the 1924 opera down to a transcendent quarter-hour of animal-world atmospherics and sheer sunburst lyricism.
		Those who have cherished benchmark JanÃ¡cek recordings by the likes of Rudolf FirkusnÃ½ (a former student of the composer who recorded the complete piano music for Deutsche Grammophon) and Sir Charles Mackerras (who has conducted all the operas on record for Decca and Supraphon) would do themselves a favor by searching out this economical collection.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=16140 (664 words)

	Houston Grand Opera presents The Cunning Little Vixen - 27-Mar-07: Performing Arts and Entertainment article: contact ...
		A Forester captures the vixen Sharp-Ears and drags her off to his farm for the children to play with.
		She manages to escape and is proud of her independence: She takes over the luxurious home of the Badger and marries the Fox, with whom she has numerous children.
		She is shot and killed by Harašta, a poultry dealer and poacher, and her pelt made into a muff for his new wife, Terynka.
	www.houstontheaterdistrict.org /en/art/?171 (564 words)

	Arts \| The Cunning Little Vixen
		The eponymous Vixen - whose tragicomic life and brutal death, defending her cubs, teaches a disillusioned gamekeeper about nature and the mess humanity can inflict on it - is one of the trickiest in the repertoire, requiring tremendous physicality as well as great vocal beauty.
		Though Upshaw occasionally lacks the requisite mischievousness and sometimes underplays the scenes that hint at the Vixen's predatory nature, there's no question that she rises superbly to the challenge.
		Her voice, with its uncanny ability to convey innocence and experience in equal measure, darts through the music like a flash of silver, with tremendous rapture and a certain malicious glee.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4611876-108884,00.html (319 words)

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