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)
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