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The Cunning Little Vixen

on Third Programme

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Act 1
Scene 1: The forest: summer
Scene 2: The yard of the Forester's cottage: autumn

THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN
in the Third Programme
An Opera in three acts by Leos Janacek after the story by Rudolf Tesnohlidek, in a new English version by Norman Tucker

HUMANS
The Forester (baritone): NEIL EASTON
His wife: RITA HUNTER
Popik, his son (treble): RONALD SUTTON-JONES
Frantik, Pepik's friend (treble) STEPHEN ALEXANDER
The Schoolmaster (tenor)... RAYMOND NILSSON
The Parson (bass) CHARLES DRAPER
Pasek, the innkeeper (baritona)...LEIGH MAURICE
His wife (soprano) JOAN DAVIES
Harasla, a poacher (baritona) JULIAN MOYLE

ANIMALS
The Badger (bass) CHARLES DRAPER
A cricket (treble) DAVID HOVELL
A grasshopper (treble) ROGER MAY
A mosquito (treble) RONALD OATWAY
A baby Frog (treble) ROGER BOOTHBY
Sharpears the Vixen, as cub (soprano) SYLVIA HANKIN
Sharpears, grown-up (soprano). JUNE BRONHILL
Lapak, the Forester's dog (tenor) RAYMOND NILSSON
The Rooster (soprano) SOO-BEE LEE
The Hen (soprano) SHEILA AMIT
Goldenmane, a Fox (tenor) KEVIN MILLER
A screech-owl (mezzo-soprano) RITA HUNTER
A canary (soprano) DOROTHY NASH
A woodpecker (tenor) NEVILLE GRIFFITHS

SADLER'S WELLS CHORUS
Chorus-Master, David Tod-Boyd
SADLER'S WELLS ORCHESTRA
Leader, John Ludlow
Conducted by Colin Davis
Producer, Colin Graham

FROM SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE, LONDON AT 7.30

The action takes place in and near a forest in Czechoslovakia

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