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Music School Festival Orchestra with the Chautauqua Opera Conservatory: The Cunning Little Vixen
August 07, 2022
About The Show

August 8 at 8:15 PM
Amphitheater 

The fable of The Cunning Little Vixen, also known as The Adventures of Vixen Sharp-Ears, is a story of the cyclical nature of life. The Vixen cub that the Forester takes home with him eventually grows up and has cubs of her own. The Frog that the cub chases past the Forester in the first scene has gone through the same cycle, and his grandchild passes the Forester in the final scene. Regardless of what the humans are doing in the story, the forest continues to go through its cycle of life, renewing and replenishing. On a parallel level, the humans in the story are following the same cycle. They are falling in love and getting married and trying to ascribe a deeper meaning to these events beyond the continuous cycle of life.

Cast, Creative & Orchestra

VIXEN
Nicole Koh
Cover: Shan Hai 

FOX
Hope Nelson

FORESTER
Jonathan Beyer
Philip Stoddard

FORESTER’S WIFE
Gabriela Linares

SCHOOLMASTER
Jacob Hunter
Cover: Jackson Allen

PARSON
Jared Werlein

HARAŠTA
Fernando Watts

PÁSEK (THE INKEEPER)
Evan Katsefes

MRS. PÁSEK
Maya Goell

PEPÍK (THE FORESTER'S GRANDSON)
Eunjin Lee

FRANTÍK (FRIEND OF PEPÍK)
Madison Holtze

YOUNG VIXEN
Shan Hai

CRICKET
Matilda Smolji

GRASSHOPPER
Hailey Gutowski

YOUNG FROG (soprano)
Eunjin Lee

MOSQUITO
Scott La Marca

LAPÁK (DOG)
Anna Maria Vacca

COCK
Kerrigan Bigelow

HEN
Grace Craig

BADGER
Fabian Balkhausen

WOODPECKER
Meredith Smietana

OWL
Natalie Corrigan

JAY
Madison Holtze

HEN'S CHORUS
Hailey Gutowski
Eunjin Lee
Maya Goell
Madison Holtze
Matilda Smolij
Jaimie Langner

FOREST CREATURES
Eunjin Lee
Maya Goell
Madison Holtze
Kerrigan Bigelow
Grace Craig
Matilda Smolij
Anna Maria Vacca
Gabriela Linares

VOICE OF THE FOREST
Hailey Gutowski
Eunjin Lee
Maya Goell
Madison Holtze
Kerrigan Bigelow
Georgiana Adams
Alexis Reed
Shan Hai
Matilda Smolij
Anna Maria Vacca
Gabriela Linares
Allison Fahey
Stephanie Perez
Jaimie Langner
Scott La Marca
Evan Katsefes
Jacob Hunter
Fabian-Jakob Balkhausen
Troy Sleeman
Nan Wang
Fernando Watts
Jared Werlein.

FOX CUBS
Grace Craig
Hailey Gutowski
Madison Holtze
Kerrigan Bigelow
Jaimie Langner
Matilda Smolij
Anna Maria Vacca

Creative:

Director: John Giampietro
Music preparation/Chorus: Martin Dubé and Kanae Matsumoto

Orchestra: 

Conductor: Timothy Muffitt
Assistant Conductor: Yeo Ryeong Ahn
Concertmaster: Munire Mierxiati
Principal Second Violin: Matthew Musachio
Principal Viola: Kamilah Brown
Principal Cello: Terence Lo
Principal Double Bass: Janae Gaddy

Leadership Staff

Director of Opera Conservatory: Marlena Malas

Conservatory Faculty:
Dominic Armstrong
Elizabeth Bishop
Jonathan Beyer
Claudia Catania
Rhoslyn Jones
Liza Armistead
Martin Dubé
Maxine Davis
John Giampietro
Donna Gill
Kanae Matsumoto
Jinhee Park
Christopher Staknys
Shiyu Tan
Yueqi Zhang

Guest Faculty:
William Burden
Susan Graham
Paul Kwak
Ben Moore
Matthew Rose
Craig Rutenberg
Philip Stoddard
Brian Zeger