An Opera by Tobias Picker

Libretto by Donald Sturrock
Based on a Story by Roald Dahl

Commissioned for the Roald Dahl Foundation

Published by Schott Helicon Music Corporation (BMI)



World premiere by Los Angeles Opera,
December 9-22, 1998


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Photo © 1998 by Ken Howard

Fantastic Mr. Fox

The composer backstage with one of the chickens


Photo © 1998 by Ken Howard

Miss Hedgehog


Photo © 1998 by Richard Holttum

Set model by Gerald Scarfe


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Boggis, Bunce and Bean


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Chorus of Trees


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Agnes the Digger, the Farmers, and Mavis the Tractor

The composer backstage with Bennie, Lennie, Jennie, & Pennie Foxcub


Photo © 1998 by Ken Howard

Mr. Fox in his den


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Rita the Rat confronts Mr. Fox

Agnes the Digger, Bunce, and Mavis the Tractor backstage


Photo © 1998 by Ken Howard

Miss Hedgehog and the Porcupine duet


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Chickens and geese

A goose backstage


Photo © 1998 by Ken Howard

Mr. Fox, Badger the Miner, and Burrowing Mole


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