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2022-02-25 19:38:00
Coliseum Images: Clive Barda Forester – Lester Lynch Vixen – Sally Matthews Forester’s Wife, Owl – Madeleine Shaw Schoolmaster, Mosquito – Alan Oke Priest, Badger – Clive Bayley Poacher – Ossian Huskinson Innkeeper, Cock – John Findon Fox – Pumeza Matshikiza Innkeeper’s Wife, Chief Hen – Gweneth Ann Rand Dog – Claire Barnett Jones Pepík, Woodpecker – Alexandra Oomens Frantík, Jay – Ffion Edwards Harašta – Ossian Huskinson Dragonfly – Joy Constantinides Frog – Robert Berry-Roe Cricket – Ethan James Grasshopper – Kavya Kutsa Jamie Manton (director) Tom Scutt (designs) Lucy Carter (lighting) Jenny Ogilvie (movement) Children’s Chorus (chorus director: Patrick Barett) Chorus of the English National Opera (chorus director: Mark Biggins) Orchestra of the English National Opera Martyn Brabbins (conductor) Failure to love the operas—more generally, the music—of Janáček would be a strange, soulless thing indeed. It seems more to be opera companies, strange, incomprehensible entities, than […]
2022-02-23 09:51:49
The cycle of life: Jamie Manton's new production of Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen at English National Opera
Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen - Pumeza Matshikiza, Sally MatthewsENO (Photo Clive Barda) Janacek The Cunning Little Vixen; Sally Matthew, Lester Lynch, Pumeza Matshikiza, Alan Oke, Clive Bayley, Ossian Huskinson Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 22 February 2022 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Jamie Manton's deliberately low-fi production successfully mixes a sense of melancholy with the feeling of the cycle of life, enlivened by a strong central performance from Sally MatthewsDirector Jamie Manton had never seen a production of Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen prior to being asked to direct the new production for English National Opera (ENO) at the London Coliseum. This meant that he brought a remarkable lack of preconceptions to the work. Manton, who directed the wonderfully inventive outdoor production of Verdi's La Traviata at Nevill Holt Opera last year [see my review], showed a similar imagination in filling the wide open spaces of the Coliseum stage. […]
2021-07-17 12:43:00
The Cunning Little Vixen, Opera Holland Park, 13 July 2021
Images: Ali WrightVixen (Jennifer France) and Fox (Julia Sporsén) Vixen – Jennifer France Fox – Julia Sporsén Forester – Grant Doyle Forester’s Wife, Owl – Ann Taylor Schoolmaster, Mosquito – Charne Rochford Priest, Badger – John Savournin Harašta – Ashley Riches Chocholka – Harriet Eyley Lapák – Natasha Agarwal Jay, Rooster – Grace Nyandoro Woodpecker – Chloë Pardoe Innkeeper – Phillip Costovski Innkeeper’s Wife – Yolanda Grant-Thompson Pepík – Alys Mererid Roberts Frantík – Claire Ward Frog – Daniel White Caterpillar—Toby Yates Grasshopper – Ben Jardim Young Vixen – Estella Charlesworth Stephen Barlow (director) Andrew D. Edwards (designs) Rory Beaton (lighting) Sarita Piotrowski (choreography, movement) Opera Holland Park Chorus (chorus master: Dominic Ellis-Peckham) City of London Sinfonia Jessica Cottis (conductor) Forester (Grant Doyle), Schoolmaster (Charne Rochford) Our present condition lends us, perhaps more than ever, to think of what has led us here, how things […]
2020-09-15 07:37:46
Orchestral showcase: Simon Rattle conducts Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen on LSO Live
[…] this production [see the review on The Arts Desk], with Rattle conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in 2019, which forms the basis for this new set. Evidently, Sellars' production was rather a gritty urban vision, so perhaps Rattle likes his Vixen rather edgy.LSO Live has now issued Simon Rattle's account of Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen with the London Symphony Orchestra, and Lucy Crowe as the Vixen, Gerald Finley as the Forester, Hanno Müller-Brachmann as Harašta, Jan Martiník as Badger and Parson, Peter Hoare as Mosquito, Rooster and Schoolmaster, and Sophia Burgos as the Fox. The performances in 2019 were very much events involving the whole LSO community, so that there was the orchestra, the London Symphony Chorus (over 70 non-professional singers) and 25 children from the LSO Discovery Voices some of whom provided solo voices in the work. The recording was made at two live performances, so we […]
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