Steve Schwartz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Let me add my voice to the chorus of approval for the Supraphon Janacek.
>I have recently bought two wonderful operas: The Cunning Little Vixen
>and The Excursions of Mr. Broucek.  Vixen is moderately well-known (for
>Janacek).  Excursions is almost unknown.  It's a wonderful comic fantasy
>about a Czech petit bourgeois, as wise as it is funny.

"Das schlaue Fuechslein" is my favourite Janacek opera, or even Janacek
work, second only to "Glagoltische Messe"!  I think Janacek has strong
librettos generally.  Did he, as I suspect, write them himself?

Mats Norrman
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