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The Cunning Little Vixen, Wales Millennium Centre Cardiff
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Beautifully realised: Aoife Miskelly (left) as Vixen Sharp Ears
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FROM the moment David Pountney’s Welsh National Opera production of The Cunning Little Vixen opens, we know we are in for a treat.
The setting is a bucolic scene in a drowsy forest, where the insects play games on a sleeping badger as a cricket and a caterpillar give a concert, while lithe dancers flit around the stage as iridescent insects.
The idyll is joined by Aoife Miskelly’s beautifully realised sassy young fox cub Vixen Sharp Ears, who is exploring the forest on her own.
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