The Excursions of Mr. Brouček

Matěj Brouček really wants just one thing: to be left in peace. The world outside is too loud, too complicated, too exhausting. But life has other plans: Brouček is torn from his comfort zone—first catapulted to the moon, then into 15th-century Prague: An odyssey with grotesque societies, bizarre trials, and a past that feels strangely unfamiliar.

With The Excursions of Mr. Brouček, Leoš Janáček created an opera of biting wit and profound comedy—a satire on bourgeois complacency, moral laziness, and humanity’s eternal inability to learn from history. Yet Janáček’s critique is never cynical. Like Mozart, he approaches humanity with subtle irony and profound empathy. With virtuosic ease and a richly nuanced musical language, he moves effortlessly between irony and earnestness, waltzing bliss and pathos—imbuing his music with a deeply human dimension.

Prague Philharmonic Choir
Choirmaster: Lukáš Vasilek

Wiener Symphoniker