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Das schlaue Füchslein
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- Date Sunday, 22/December/2024 16:00 (4 more dates)
- Venue Deutsche Oper Berlin
- Address Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin-Charlottenburg
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The Cunning Little Vixen
Das schlaue Füchslein – Jana Kurucová als Fuchs, Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
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Das schlaue Füchslein – Ruth Tromboukis
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![Das schlaue Füchslein – Stephen Bronk als Förster, Jörn Schümann als Pfarrer und Dachs, Clemens Bieber als Schulmeister und Dackel Bettina Stöß]()
Das schlaue Füchslein – Stephen Bronk als Förster, Jörn Schümann als Pfarrer und Dachs, Clemens Bieber als Schulmeister und Dackel Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
![Das schlaue Füchslein – Stephen Bronk als Förster, Krzysztof Szumanski als Harasta Bettina Stöß]()
Das schlaue Füchslein – Stephen Bronk als Förster, Krzysztof Szumanski als Harasta Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
![Das schlaue Füchslein – Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf, Jörn Schümann als Pfarrer und Dachs Bettina Stöß]()
Das schlaue Füchslein – Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf, Jörn Schümann als Pfarrer und Dachs Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
![Das schlaue Füchslein – Stephen Bronk als Förster, Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf, Dana Beth Miller als Försterin Bettina Stöß]()
Das schlaue Füchslein – Stephen Bronk als Förster, Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf, Dana Beth Miller als Försterin Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
![Das schlaue Füchslein – Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf, Annie Rosen und Hila Fahima als Frantik und Pepik Bettina Stöß]()
Das schlaue Füchslein – Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf, Annie Rosen und Hila Fahima als Frantik und Pepik Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
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Das schlaue Füchslein – Paul Kaufmann als Pasek und Hahn Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
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Das schlaue Füchslein – Paul Kaufmann als Pasek und Hahn u. a. Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
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Das schlaue Füchslein – Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
![Das schlaue Füchslein – Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf Bettina Stöß]()
Das schlaue Füchslein – Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
![Das schlaue Füchslein – Jana Kurucová als Fuchs, Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf Bettina Stöß]()
Das schlaue Füchslein – Jana Kurucová als Fuchs, Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
![Das schlaue Füchslein – Jana Kurucová als Fuchs, Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf Bettina Stöß]()
Das schlaue Füchslein – Jana Kurucová als Fuchs, Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
![Das schlaue Füchslein – Jana Kurucová als Fuchs, Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf Bettina Stöß]()
Das schlaue Füchslein – Jana Kurucová als Fuchs, Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
![Das schlaue Füchslein – Stephen Bronk als Förster Bettina Stöß]()
Das schlaue Füchslein – Stephen Bronk als Förster Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
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Das schlaue Füchslein – Stephen Bronk als Förster u. a. Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
![Das schlaue Füchslein – Stephen Bronk als Förster, Clemens BieberSchulmeister und Dackel, Nadine Secunde als Gastwirtin Bettina Stöß]()
Das schlaue Füchslein – Stephen Bronk als Förster, Clemens BieberSchulmeister und Dackel, Nadine Secunde als Gastwirtin Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
![Das schlaue Füchslein – Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf, Clemens Bieber als Schulmeister und Dackel Bettina Stöß]()
Das schlaue Füchslein – Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf, Clemens Bieber als Schulmeister und Dackel Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
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Das schlaue Füchslein – Szenenimpression Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
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Das schlaue Füchslein – Szenenimpression Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
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Das schlaue Füchslein – Szenenimpression Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
![Das schlaue Füchslein – Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf u. a. Bettina Stöß]()
Das schlaue Füchslein – Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf u. a. Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
![Das schlaue Füchslein – Jana Kurucová als Fuchs, Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf Bettina Stöß]()
Das schlaue Füchslein – Jana Kurucová als Fuchs, Martina Welschenbach als Füchslein Schlaukopf Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
![Das schlaue Füchslein – Szenenimpression Bettina Stöß]()
Das schlaue Füchslein – Szenenimpression Bettina Stöß
© 2012 Bettina Stöß
This cheerful, melancholy work about a cunning vixen is not called a "Czech Midsummer Night's Dream" for nothing. The figures of the animal and human worlds are closely interwoven here to create an allegory about the cycle of life and death. In this late work, Janáček composed an impressionistic soundscape of subtly orchestrated short scenes and episodes, orchestral preludes and transformations, and Katharina Thalbach's detailed staging emphasises the enchanting character of this work ... Conductor: Marko Letonja; Director: Katharina Thalbach; With Derek Welton / Geon Kim, Jared Werlein, Meechot Marrero / Alexandra Oomens, Arianna Manganello / Martina Baroni and others.
The opera gives us scenes from the life of Bystrouska, a young fox. The forester, who has never lost his desire for freedom and love, catches her in the forest one day and takes her home; to him she seems the embodiment of his desire. But Bystrouska manages to escape. In the woods she drives the badger from his set. In her new home she also meets the love of her life: a charming fox courts her and the lovers spend their first night together in the den. They finally wed, surrounded by the animals of the forest. Soon we see the vixen as the proud mother of a crowd of children. But their happiness is shortlived: Bystrouska is shot by the poacher Harasta. Meanwhile the forester and schoolmaster sit in the inn lamenting the onset of old age. The forester reflects bitterly on the death of the vixen. He cannot forget her uninhibited nature, her youthfulness, her urge to be free. In the forest he is enveloped by a quaintly magical atmosphere and falls asleep. As in a vision, a young fox appears to him, the very image of his mother. Life has triumphed over mortality. The wheel has come full circle.
„I am creating the Little Fox the way the Devil catches flies – when he has nothing better to do. I wrote the Little Fox for the forest and for the sorrow of my later years.” Leos Janacek wrote. But his opera THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN is certainly not the melancholic retrospective of an old man who feels himself closer to death than to life. Although the composer was in his late sixties, he created a work full of comic and poetic moments. Offsetting the „sorrow of his later years” we are given a merry and melancholic fable embracing both death and the comforting knowledge that death leads on to new life. The story is taken from a serialised novel by Rudolf Tesnohlídek illustrated by Stanislav Lolek and published in the Brno daily „Lidové noviny” from 1920 onwards. The composer wrote the libretto himself and the opera was completed by January 1924. It resembles an impressionistic composition of short, subtly instrumentalised scenes and episodes that are linked by a total of nine orchestral preludes and scene changes that provide the musical and dramaturgical structure of the work. Despite his affinity for impressionism and the music of Debussy, whom he admired, Janacek's musical language remains unique. He was one of very few composers who could develop music from the melody of language. Sequences resembling leitmotifs but lacking a stringent structural urgency can be detected throughout the opera. Characteristic of this opera are also the popular, albeit never folkloric, elements within the music and its decidedly rhythmic structure, which gives an added dimension to already beguiling melodies.
„Katharina Thalbach's production teems with ideas as the undergrowth teems with animal life. At times we're at a loss where to look first, and afterwards the temptation is to tell everyone about the snail or the grumpy badger with his pipe, but we don't, because we don't want to spoil the delight for others. Added to this there is Ezio Toffolutti's stage set, which recalls the woodland scenery or moonlit night of a lovingly illustrated children's book. ” (Berliner Zeitung)
The opera gives us scenes from the life of Bystrouska, a young fox. The forester, who has never lost his desire for freedom and love, catches her in the forest one day and takes her home; to him she seems the embodiment of his desire. But Bystrouska manages to escape. In the woods she drives the badger from his set. In her new home she also meets the love of her life: a charming fox courts her and the lovers spend their first night together in the den. They finally wed, surrounded by the animals of the forest. Soon we see the vixen as the proud mother of a crowd of children. But their happiness is shortlived: Bystrouska is shot by the poacher Harasta. Meanwhile the forester and schoolmaster sit in the inn lamenting the onset of old age. The forester reflects bitterly on the death of the vixen. He cannot forget her uninhibited nature, her youthfulness, her urge to be free. In the forest he is enveloped by a quaintly magical atmosphere and falls asleep. As in a vision, a young fox appears to him, the very image of his mother. Life has triumphed over mortality. The wheel has come full circle.
„I am creating the Little Fox the way the Devil catches flies – when he has nothing better to do. I wrote the Little Fox for the forest and for the sorrow of my later years.” Leos Janacek wrote. But his opera THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN is certainly not the melancholic retrospective of an old man who feels himself closer to death than to life. Although the composer was in his late sixties, he created a work full of comic and poetic moments. Offsetting the „sorrow of his later years” we are given a merry and melancholic fable embracing both death and the comforting knowledge that death leads on to new life. The story is taken from a serialised novel by Rudolf Tesnohlídek illustrated by Stanislav Lolek and published in the Brno daily „Lidové noviny” from 1920 onwards. The composer wrote the libretto himself and the opera was completed by January 1924. It resembles an impressionistic composition of short, subtly instrumentalised scenes and episodes that are linked by a total of nine orchestral preludes and scene changes that provide the musical and dramaturgical structure of the work. Despite his affinity for impressionism and the music of Debussy, whom he admired, Janacek's musical language remains unique. He was one of very few composers who could develop music from the melody of language. Sequences resembling leitmotifs but lacking a stringent structural urgency can be detected throughout the opera. Characteristic of this opera are also the popular, albeit never folkloric, elements within the music and its decidedly rhythmic structure, which gives an added dimension to already beguiling melodies.
„Katharina Thalbach's production teems with ideas as the undergrowth teems with animal life. At times we're at a loss where to look first, and afterwards the temptation is to tell everyone about the snail or the grumpy badger with his pipe, but we don't, because we don't want to spoil the delight for others. Added to this there is Ezio Toffolutti's stage set, which recalls the woodland scenery or moonlit night of a lovingly illustrated children's book. ” (Berliner Zeitung)
Artists/Collaborators: Marko Letonja (Musikalische Leitung), Katharina Thalbach (Inszenierung), Ezio Toffolutti (Bühne, Kostüme), Thomas Richter (Chöre), Christian Lindhorst (Kinderchor), Darie Cardyn (Choreografie), Derek Welton (Förster), Stephanie Wake-Edwards (Försterin, Specht), Sibylle Benner-Jost (Eule), Clemens Bieber (Schulmeister und Dackel), Andrew Harris (Pfarrer und Dachs), Jared Werlein (Harasta), Jörg Schörner (Pasek), Meechot Marrero (Füchslein Schlaukopf), Maria Motolygina (Gastwirtin), Arianna Manganello (Fuchs), Maria Vasilevskaya (Frantik, Grille und Eichelhäher), Kristina Clemenz (Schopfhenne), Lilit Davtyan (Pepik, Heuschrecke), Chance Jonas-O'Toole (Hahn und Mücke), Kinderchor der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Füchse), Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Chöre), Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Orchester), Opernballett der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Tanz)
Runtime: Thu, 19/12/2024 to Sun, 05/01/2025
Introduction (in German language): 45 minutes before beginning; Rang-Foyer
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