Lucy Crowe (vixen) and Sergei Leiferkus (the forester). The forester captures the young vixen and takes her home to amuse his children. Full synopsis here.Photograph: Bill Cooper/PRThe Forester's Wife (Jean Rigby) and the vixen (Lucy Crowe). The vixen bites the boys who were teasing her, and so she is tied up. Full synopsis here.Photograph: Tristram Kenton for The GuardianThe cockerel (Kirsty Stokes), lording it over the hens. Full synopsis here.Photograph: Tristram Kenton for The Guardian
The forester's hens, who the vixen tries to rouse to revolt against their master. Full synopsis here.Photograph: Tristram Kenton for The GuardianThe vixen plays dead and the hens come to inspect her, whereupon she grabs them and kills them all. Full synopsis here.Photograph: Tristram Kenton for The GuardianThe vixen (Lucy Crowe) escapes from the Forester's yard and returns to the forest. Full synopsis here.Photograph: Tristram Kenton for The GuardianAdrian Thompson as the Schoolmaster, who, spotting something - the vixen - behind a sunflower mistakes her for Terynka with whom he is infatuated, and sings drunken words of love to her. Full synopsis here.Photograph: Bill Cooper/PR Full synopsis here.Photograph: Tristram Kenton for The GuardianThe vixen meets a fox (Emma Bell), they fall in love and are married by a woodpecker. Full synopsis here.Photograph: Bill cooper/PRFull synopsis here.Photograph: Bill Cooper/PRThe forester, dozing, stretches out his hand and finds he has picked up the Frog, the grandson of the frog the Forester encountered at the opera's beginning. Full synopsis here.Photograph: Tristram Kenton for The Guardian
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