Fantastic Mr. Fox
Music by Tobias Picker · premiered 1998 · at Los Angeles Opera
Fantastic Mr. Fox is an opera in three acts composed by Tobias Picker to a libretto by Donald Sturrock based on Roald Dahl's children's novel of the same name. It was premiered by Los Angeles Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on December 9, 1998.
In 2010, it was adapted into an abridged version with seven instrumentalists, and in 2011, a full-length version with the same reduced orchestration. In 2019, Fantastic Mr. Fox was recorded by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera and released on Albany Records and was subsequently awarded the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording.
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About the Composer
Tobias Picker is the composer of record for this opera.
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Other Operas by Tobias Picker
- An American Tragedy (1925)
- Awakenings (1960)
- Dolores Claiborne (1992)
- Emmeline (1996)