Lady Into Fox
The Cunning Little Vixen is one of the most acutely personal operas ever written, with such deeply moving music that composer Leoš Janáček asked for the final scene to be played at his funeral. Sir Simon Rattle and bass-baritone Gerald Finley – who worked together on the recent LSO Live recording – talk to Clive Paget about what makes the opera so autobiographical and how Janáček spun something so profoundly philosophical out of a tale of foxes in a forest.
From Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique to Smetana’s “From My Life” String Quartet, many composers have...
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