Most operas are about people. Leoš Janáček wrote one about a fox, and then quietly made it about everything else: love, aging, freedom, and the way the forest keeps going long after any of us are gone.
The Dallas Opera brings The Cunning Little Vixen to the Winspear Opera House starting Oct. 30. It’s been a long wait. The company hasn’t staged this opera in 26 years and hasn’t presented anything by Janáček in 22. This time it arrives in director Barrie Kosky’s production, created for the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in 2022 and making its North American premiere here in Dallas.
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