Stage settings

Stage setting at Sadler’s Wells Opera, London, 1961

photo: Donald Southern – Source: «L’avant Scène Operá», issue No. 84, February 1986

Act II, scene 4 – summer

Animals of the forest gather to celebrate the wedding of the Fox Goldenmane (Kevin Miller) and the Vixen Sharpears (June Bronhill)


Alternative Text

photo source: «The world of Janáček’s Operas», a catalogue published by the Moravské Zemské Muzeum, Brno, 1998

Act I, scene 1 – spring

The dance of the Dragonfly


photo source: «The world of Janáček’s Operas», a catalogue published by the Moravské Zemské Muzeum, Brno, 1998

Act II, scene 4 – summer

The Fox Goldenmane (Kevin Miller) is courting the Vixen Sharpears (June Bronhill)


Act I, scene 2 – autumn

The Vixen Sharpears’ (June Bronhill) escape to freedom

Act I, scene 2 – autumn (entire image)
photo sources
top: «The Operas of Leoš Janáček», Erik Chisholm, Pergamon Press – Oxford, New York 1971
bottom: «Opery Leoše Janáčka oper doma iv zahraničí («Leoš Janáček’s Operas at Home and Abroad»), Svatava Přibáňová, PhD, for the National Theatre Brno, 1984


photo source: «Leoš Janáček», by Hans Hollander, Zürich, 1964

Act III, scene 1 – next year

The Vixen Sharpears (June Bronhill) is decoying away the Poacher Harašta (Julian [?] Moyle) to protect her cubs from him.


photo source: «The Operas of Leoš Janáček», Erik Chisholm, Pergamon Press – Oxford, New York 1971

Act III, scene 1 – next year

While the Vixen Sharpears (June Bronhill) is decoying away the Poacher Harašta (Julian [?] Moyle), the Fox Goldenmane (Kevin Miller) and their cubs are seizing Harašta’s game bag