Artistic Director David Pountney has just announced the 2012–2014 programme of the Welsh National Opera.

Under the title Free Spirits, the WNO is presenting Alban Berg’s Lulu and Leoš Janácek’s Cunning Little Vixen in spring 2013.

The full programme is here (PDF file).

The New York Philharmonic’s production of the Cunning Little Vixen opens at the Avery Fisher Hall tonight.

“Music Director Alan Gilbert, director/designer Doug Fitch, and the New York Philharmonic invite you into the woods, with Avery Fisher Hall transformed into a fantastical forest filled with talking frogs, singing mosquitoes and badgers, and one very fetching little fox.”

See production photos on the NYPhil’s Facebook page.

“La piccola volpe astuta”

Jonathan Dove’s chamber version of the Cunning Little Vixen opens in Rome tonight at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

Marco Angius conducts with Damiana Mizzi and Ivo Yordanov in the lead roles.

Read our introduction to the work.