Sometimes the Canadian Opera Company gets it right and the current production of Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen is a good example.  It’s got all the things that might help boost a flagging audience.  It’s not over familiar.  Nobody is going to be complaining that they have seen the same old boring production five times already.  It’s a brilliant score.  The production is intelligent with enough for those who want more than a costume drama while not doing anything to shock the pearl clutchers.  It’s well sung; with a goodly quantity of local talent, and the orchestral playing and conducting is exemplary.  What more could one ask for?  One could I suppose add that it’s an opera one could happily take children to.

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