The Cunning Little Vixen: An Opera by Janáček Full of Nature and Folk Wisdom

For this week’s Sunday Music Show, we will be playing you some music by Leoš Janáček, “The Cunning Little Vixen” – ranked among the most important Czech operas of the 20th century for the 100th anniversary of its premier on November 6, 1924, in the city of Brno under the direction of František Neumann.

Inspired by a comic strip by Rudolf Těsnohlídek in the Lidové noviny newspaper in the early 1920s, Janáček created one of the most original works in Czech classical music.

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