This was a excellent review article. I'm very fond of *The Cunning Little Vixen*, and I saw a terrific production at the Houston Grand Opera several years ago. I didn't know anything about the origin of the story, though.
In the opera, there is a very strange father-daughter dynamic between the Forester and Sharp-Ears. Sharp-Ears also seems to have something of a crush on the Forester, and periodically goes into hysterics when she thinks that humans aren't taking her seriously because she is "just a vixen." (She is actually shot by the hunter while lecturing him on his disregard for vixen/human equality.) I'm curious to read the original to compare it to the opera.
This was a excellent review article. I'm very fond of *The Cunning Little Vixen*, and I saw a terrific production at the Houston Grand Opera several years ago. I didn't know anything about the origin of the story, though.
In the opera, there is a very strange father-daughter dynamic between the Forester and Sharp-Ears. Sharp-Ears also seems to have something of a crush on the Forester, and periodically goes into hysterics when she thinks that humans aren't taking her seriously because she is "just a vixen." (She is actually shot by the hunter while lecturing him on his disregard for vixen/human equality.) I'm curious to read the original to compare it to the opera.