Fantastic Mr. Fox (opera)

Fantastic Mr. Fox is an opera in three acts composed by Tobias Picker to a libretto by Donald Sturrock based on Roald Dahl's children's novel Fantastic Mr Fox. It was premiered by Los Angeles Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on December 9, 1998.

Performance history

Picker's second opera, after his 1996 Emmeline, Fantastic Mr Fox was commissioned for the Roald Dahl Foundation. It received its world premiere performance by Los Angeles Opera on December 9, 1998. Stephen Barlow staged a new version of the work commissioned by Opera Holland Park especially designed to be performed promenade style in the gardens of Holland Park in the Summer of 2010. This version, in an abridged form for seven instruments, starred Grant Doyle as Mr. Fox, Olivia Ray as Mrs. Fox, Jaimee Marshall as Miss Hedgehog, Henry Grant Kerswell, Peter Kent and John Lofthouse as Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean. A full-length orchestral version was toured by English Touring Opera in 2011.^[1]. The world premiere of a full-length seven instrument chamber version was produced in September 2011 by The Microscopic Opera Company of Pittsburgh, PA and starred Daniel Teadt as Mr. Fox, Katherine Brandt as Mrs. Fox, Leah Dyer as Miss Hedgehog, Sean Donaldson, Jeffrey Gross, Sean Lenhart as Farmers Boggis, Bunce & Bean.

Roles

Notes and references

Sources

• Battle, Laura (March 4 2011). "Foxy business on the road". Financial Times
• Rich, Alan (11 December 1998). "Fantastic Mr. Fox", Variety
• Schott Music, Fantastic Mr. Fox

External links

• Tobias Picker's official website
• Los Angeles Opera review of Fantastic Mr. Fox