Richard Bratby

Deserves to become an ENO staple: The Cunning Little Vixen reviewed

Plus: Patricia Kopatchinskaja played Stravinsky’s Concerto the way it’s clearly always been waiting to be played

ENO’s Cunning Little Vixen takes its visual cues from those surreal, faintly terrifying Eastern European animations that used to plug holes in the Channel 4 schedules in the 1980s. Credit: Clive Barda
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