FULL The Excursions of Mr.Broucek (Janacek) Bregenz 2026 Peter Hoare, Mihails Culpajevs, Károly Szemerédy

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century aka Výlety páně Broučkovy  
• Composer: Janacek Leos  
• Libretto: Viktor Dyk, František Procházka Sarafínský, František Gellner, Josef Hóly, Zykmund Janke, Karel Mašek    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Festspielhaus Bregenz, Austria  
• Recorded: July 2026
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Peter Hoare, Mihails Culpajevs, Károly Szemerédy, Tatev Baroyan, Jan Stava, Gaja Napast, Jana Kurucová, Svatopluk Sem, Linard Vrielink, Paul Curievici, Lukáš Bařák
• Conductor: Robert Jindra  
• Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker  
• Chorus: Prague Philharmonic Choir  
• Chorus Master: Lukáš Vasilek  
• Choreographer: Crispin Lord  
• Stage Director: Yuval Sharon  
• Stage Designer: Jon Bausor  
• Costume Designer: Jon Bausor  
• Lighting Designer: Yi Zhao  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: ORF, Unitel  
• Date Published: 2026  
• Format: Broadcast
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, desubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  About

  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.

  At a time when societies are increasingly closing themselves off from one another, Brouček’s journey feels more relevant than ever. Inspired by Dadaism and the Theater of the Absurd, US-American director Yuval Sharon brings Janáček’s rarely performed opera to the stage, in a production as bold as it is visually striking. Aesthetically compelling, musically vibrant, and theatrically daring, Janáček’s original opera stands as a satirical masterpiece of existential depth.

  Quoted from Bregenzer Festspiele

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