Music by Leos Janáček
Libretto adapted from the comics of Rudolf Těsnohlídek and Stanislav Lolek

Cleveland Orchestra
Severance Music Center
Cleveland, Ohio
Premiere May 2014
Revived at Detroit Opera May 11 - 19, 2024

Director: Yuval Sharon
Animation Creation: Walter Robot Studios (Bill Barminsky and Christopher Louie)
Projection and Lighting Designer: Jason H. Thompson
Costume Designer: Ann Closs-Farley
Mask Designer: Cristina Waltz
Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

Sharon's made-for-Cleveland production of Leos Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen incorporates live singers with digital animation. Characters poke their heads through cutouts in the animated scenery, transforming themselves into cartoon characters. Doors in the set allow masked singers to pop onto the scene as forest animals. The orchestra took the production on tour to Vienna in October 2017, where it was the first fully-staged production in the Musikverein's history. 

Photography provided courtesy of The Cleveland Orchestra.