Act 1
The Forester is walking trough his woods on a hot summer afternoon. He lies down and soon dozes off. The forest is full of life: little flies circle around, a cricket and grasshopper get swept up in an infectious waltz, a mosquito drunk on human blood goes reeling about and a little frog tries to catch him. The young vixen scares the frog, who jumps onto the sleeping man. Waking, the Forester catches the vixen and drags her home.
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The captive vixen lives with the dog in the Forester's yard. Pepík, the Forester's grandson, brings a friend, and they tease the vixen; she bites Pepík. In response to his wife's complains, the Forester ties up the vixen. Feeling the strangeness of real captivity, the vixen dreams of freedom in the wild forest. Mocked by the cock, the vixen calls on all the chickens to rebel against his domination and their forced labour. Then she tricks them, and slaughter them all. The enraged Forester attacks at the vixen, but she bites through her ropes and escapes to freedom.
Act 2
The vixen has acquired a few traits during her stay at the Forester’s abode, including a little guile. She drives out a grumpy old badger from his den and happily takes his place there, supported by insect admirers.
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Meanwhile, at Pásek’s Inn, the Forester and his friends have settled down to a game of cards and some good drink. The Forester pokes fun at the Schoolmaster‘s fondness for a certain Terynka, and the Schoolmaster pays him back in kind by asking after the vixen. They all leave the inn staggering drunk. The vixen secretly observes these late-night wanderers and hides among the sunflowers. Their trembling attracts the attention of the Schoolmaster, who sees in them the face of Terynka, the local beauty, and tries to go after her. Even the Parson‘s recollection of a love from his student days is interrupted by the vixen. The Forester shoots at her; both men then run off in fright.
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On a lovely moonlit summer night the vixen encounters the dashing fox. Their initial attraction soon grows into love, which is consummated in the vixen’s den. The woodland creatures view the vixen‘s immoral ways with indignation, and are satisfied only once a hastily-arranged wedding has taken place.
Act 3
Summer turns into autumn. The vixen is now a skilled hunter. The Forester runs into Harašta, a poultry trader. Harašta boasts of his upcoming marriage with Terynka, while the Forester wanders whether Harašta has been poaching in his woods. The vixen appears with Goldskin and her fox cubs, and she runs into Harašta, who is carrying a basket full of chickens. When he threatens to kill her in order to present her tail as a gift to Terynka, she decides to have revenge. He falls into her trap, and she scratches his nose. As her cubs eat Harašta's chickens, Harašta fires into the pack the vixen remains lying on the ground, dead.
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At the inn, the Forester learns that Harašta’s Terinka has received a new muff for her wedding – so that’s why he found the fox den empty! The Schoolmaster is pained by the news of Terinka’s wedding. A feeling of sorrow at lost youth descends over them all, and the Forester thinks it better to head for home now. On his way he thinks back to his own youth, and remeber his wedding night. The forest looks the same as it did when he found the vixen, all the woodland creatures ate here just like they were then. Only the little fox is missing… And then he sees her – the living image of her mother! A tiny frog appears, the grandchild of the earlier one.

conductor: Marko Ivanović
director Jiří Heřman
set design: Dragan Stojčevski
costumes: Alexandra Grusková
lighting design: Daniel Tesař
dramaturgy: Patricie Částková
choirmaster: Klára Složilová Roztočilová

cast
Bystouška: Jana Šrejma Kačírková
Zlatohřbítek: Václava Krejčí Housková
Forester: Svatopluk Sem
Schoolmaster/Mosquito: Ondřej Koplík
Reverend/Badger: Jan Šťáva
Forester´s wife/Owl: Daniela Straková-Šedrlová
Mr. Pásek: Petr Karas
Mrs. Pásková/Woodpecker Jitka Zerhauová
Pepík: Zdislava Bočková
Frantík: Eva Štěrbová
Harašta: Roman Hoza
Grasshopper: Barbora Šancová
Cricket: Eva Daňhelová
Lapák: Jitka Klečanská
Rooster: Andrea Široká
Crested Hen: Martina Králíková
Jay: Andrea Široká