Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (Opus Arte)

[NoirOrchestre]

Revenge ! Let's record Britten and Purcell in Swedish

[LiimLsan]

shit! somebody already did a project of this?

doesnt mean i cna't make my own then still...



[darlingzooloo]

It may be in english, but even I as an english speaker cannot understand it, XD I'd prefer it in czech even though I don't know that language.

[nanashiwolf]

The chickens make me happy XD

[NonRtarded]

...Whow that was cool o_o! I liked it alot lol

[GMWofNJ]

Unfortunately few people know that the opera is based off of a book. Janacek got famous off the genius of Tesnolidek.

[MCFractal]

Not a book, Rudolf Tesnohlidek's original Liska Bystrouska was published as a newspaper comic strip.

Janacek's opera was the first, and possibly only opera based on a comic strip.

[lopiko01]

i can hardly understand what the dog is saying! now i notice that the rythm of th emusic was intended for czech.

[jennythemusicmaker]

He says "You had better do as you're told! Don't be disobedient! Anything for a quiet life..."

I remember original footage of when Matt Baker recorded his voice for the dog. :)

[Squeakybird]

@jennythemusicmaker Same here.

[luciferlocke]

The original was in Czech, and Janacek's melodic style is notoriously tied to the patterns of the Czech language - an effect he deliberately cultivated early in his career. One one hand I'm sympathetic to BBC's intention (I presume) to make this accessible to a wide audience (and children in particular), but then on the other hand I feel it really loses much of its vitality this way.

[humboles]

@luciferlocke Might we not overdo the 'authentic Czech at any price' approach? Janacek seemed to approve his friend Max Brod's German version of the opera,after all. Would British youngsters watching a long, subtitled Czech opera both understand and remain enthralled, and would Janacek really have approved of his 'melodic curves of speech' theories reducing access to his works by non-Czechs (assuming a sympathetic translation, obviously)?

[luciferlocke]

It's so gorgeous but why the !@#* !@#*$& %*@#$ %*@# did they have to record it in English? Why why why why why? *bangs head on desk*

[pirateclothes01]

I thought that this was supposed to be one of the few English operas in existence. Janacek wrote it in English so it's proper for this to be in English.

[pirateclothes01]

Okay I looked it up, apparently it can be in both languages. I had an opera collection that described why it is in English but I lent it out.

[JeeRant]

What's all this about "one of the few opera in English in existence"?? There are hundreds, probably thousands, of English-language operas. Ever heard of Benjamin Britten, for goodness sake?

[Jackie771]

OH - MY - GOD! Unbelievable:-D*loool*

[RyuuYareYare]

omg, opera cartoons.

[RyuuYareYare]

p.s. love, how they drew the foxes.