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The Cunning Little Vixen - in pictures

PG Cunning Little Vixen, Glyndebourne 2012
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/PR
Cunning Little Vixen: The Forester's Wife strangles Vixen Sharp Ears
The 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 Guardian
Cunning Little Vixen: Cockerel played by Kirsty Stokes
The cockerel (Kirsty Stokes), lording it over the hens. Full synopsis here. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for The Guardian
Cunning Little Vixen: A scene from The Cunning Little Vixen
The forester's hens, who the vixen tries to rouse to revolt against their master. Full synopsis here. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for The Guardian
Cunning Little Vixen: A scene from The Cunning Little Vixen
The 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 Guardian
Cunning Little Vixen: Vixen Sharp Ears
The vixen (Lucy Crowe) escapes from the Forester's yard and returns to the forest. Full synopsis here. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for The Guardian
PG Cunning Little Vixen, Glyndebourne 2012
Adrian 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
Cunning Little Vixen: Lucy Crowe as Vixen Sharp Ears
Full synopsis here. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for The Guardian
PG Cunning Little Vixen, Glyndebourne 2012
The vixen meets a fox (Emma Bell), they fall in love and are married by a woodpecker. Full synopsis here. Photograph: Bill cooper/PR
PG Cunning Little Vixen, Glyndebourne 2012
Full synopsis here. Photograph: Bill Cooper/PR
Cunning Little Vixen: A scene from The Cunning Little Vixen
The 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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