The Cunning Little Vixen

Bob Ruggiero January 28, 2010 4:00AM

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Though it sounds like the title of a movie a traveling businessman would order in a hotel, The Cunning Little Vixen reflects a wholly different kind of animalistic behavior. The 1924 opera by Czech composer Leos Janacek is the seemingly LSD-generated circle-of-life story involving a human forester, a vixen female fox cub he forcibly takes home as a pet, and a ravishing gypsy girl with whom he's infatuated. With the animals of the forest taking on human characteristics and a Twilight Zone-esque ending, the piece is nonetheless considered a light opera. 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Moores Opera House, University of Houston, 4800 Calhoun. For information, call 713-743-3009 or visit www.music.uh.edu. $10 to $15.

Fri., Jan. 29, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 30, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 31, 2 p.m., 2010