Word: wirklichkeit
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...Kluge Fuchslein (The Sly Little Fox), an opera by Leos Janáĉek is, in technique, the exact opposite of Jenufa (TIME, Dec. 15), his first opera, written 25 years ago. Jenufa was realism-a Czech Wirklichkeit; this work is phantasy. It tells the story of a fox-no histrionic creature, in whose caperings those of humanity are derisively reflected, but a sharp red beast out of the fen. Captured by a woodcutter, he bites a baby, kills a cock, runs away to the woods again. Meanwhile, one Terynka-a girl as pretty, wild...
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