The Excursions of Mr. Brouček
Leoš Janáček
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Thu 23 July 2026 – 7.30 p.m.
About
Matěj Brouček really just wants one thing: to be left in peace. The world is too loud, too complicated, too exhausting. He would rather retreat into the safety of his own four walls. But life has other plans: Brouček is torn from his comfort zone—first catapulted to the moon, then thrown into 15th-century Prague. Grotesque societies, bizarre trials await him, and a past that feels surprisingly contemporary. But do these journeys change him at all—or does he remain the same person after all?
Opera in two acts (1920, rev. 1926)
Libretto by Leoš Janáček
Sung in Czech with German and English surtitles
Cast
Matěj Brouček
Daniel Brenna
Mazal, Blankytný, Petřík
Mihails Culpajevs
Sakristan, Lunobor, Domšík
Károly Szemerédy
Málinka, Etherea, Kunka
Tatev Baroyan
Würfl, Čaroskvoucí, Schöffe
Allen Michael Jones
Číšníček, Wunderkind, Student
Nikki Treurniet
Kedruta
Jana Kurucová
Svatopluk Čech, I. Táborita
Svatopluk Sem
Composer, Harfoboj, Miroslav Zlatník
Linard Vrielink
Maler, Duhoslav, Professor’s voice, Vojta od Pávů, II. Táborita
Paul Curievici
Poet, other Poet, Oblačný, Vacek Bradatý
Lukáš Bařák
