How Munich’s Cunning Little Vixen turned into The Blue F*ck
OperaA Bavarian State Opera post yesterday came out on Facebook as: ‘The cast of THE BLUE FUCK together with our director Serge Dorny, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and Barrie Kosky’.
How did that happen?
Janacek’s animal opera PÅ™Ãhody liÅ¡ky BystrouÅ¡ky is known in English as The Cunning Little Vixen and in German as Das schlaue Füchslein.
Enter Facebook’s translator. Schlaue is instantly mistaken for ‘blaue’, or blue, and any word with ‘fuchs’ in it converts to the demotic Saxon colloquial.
Must try harder, Facebook.
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