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The Excursions of Mr. Brouček
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The Excursions of Mr. Brouček
Opera in two acts (1920, rev. 1926)
Libretto by Leoš Janáček
Sung in Czech with German and English surtitles
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?
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. Janáček’s music oscillates with virtuoso ease between irony and pathos, between waltzing bliss and passionate choral passages, between the everyday and utopia. In the staging by US-American director Yuval Sharon, Brouček is not portrayed merely as a drunk petty bourgeois, but as a man unaware of his own narrow-mindedness. This is an opera full of original humor and existential depth.
Program and cast
Cast
Conductor:
Robert Jindra
Stage Director:
Yuval Sharon
Stage Designer, Costume Designer:
Jon Bausor
Lighting Designer:
Yi Zhao
Video:
Hannah Wasileski
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
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Wiener Symphoniker
Bregenz Festspielhaus
The Bregenz Festival is a cultural festival that takes place annually in July and August in the Vorarlberg provincial capital of Bregenz in Austria.
The main attraction for a large number of visitors on the world's largest lake stage is the play on the lake. The festival is known for the beauty of the natural scenery of Lake Constance, oversized stage sets, technical cabinet pieces and a unique acoustics, which is achieved by the technique of Bregenz directional hearing. Elisabeth Sobotka has been artistic director of the Bregenz Festival since January 2015.
The programme of the Bregenz Festival in 2004, for example, included around 80 events attended by over 215,000 spectators. The orchestra of the festival is the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
The Festspielhaus Bregenz is an event centre in Bregenz and was opened in July 1980. It is the venue of the Bregenz Festival and the venue for conferences, congresses and events. It is operated by Kongresskultur Bregenz GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of the state capital Bregenz. At the first festival in 1946, Mazarts "Basien und Bastienne" and his "Kleine Nachtsmusik" choreographed as a ballet were performed as "Spiel auf dem See" in the gondola port of Mazarts. After a donation by Karl Deuring, the largest lake stage in the world, a grandstand with a capacity of 6400 people, was made available to the Festspiele in 1950. In 1979, it was initially reduced to 4400 seats by conversions, but after further expansion it now holds almost 7000 spectators. As a play on the lake, a large production of the music theatre was staged every year, initially mostly operettas, singing plays or play operas, since the 1970s more and more operas of the international repertoire and musicals. Between 1960 and 1977 the Seebühne was also used again and again for ballet performances. Since 1985, the productions have been performed on the Seebühne for two years at a time.
Arrival
Five minutes walk from the main station, with very good train and bus connections. A motorway entrance and exit can be reached within three minutes by car. There are four airports (Friedrichshafen, Memmingen, Altenrhein, Zurich) within an hour's drive.
You have never been so close to your event location.
Arriving by bus
The festival district borders directly on the main railway station of the state capital Bregenz, where the bus station is located.
Arrival by car
Several large parking spaces are available in the immediate vicinity of the Festspielhaus. From the Bregenz city entrances, a parking guidance system leads you to free parking spaces.
Directions by car from the direction of Innsbruck
Motorway A14 (toll sticker required)
Departure Bregenz
city tunnel
after the tunnel keep right (Rheinstraße)
after approx. 400 m turn right onto the bridge (sign "Festspielhaus")
by car from Switzerland
Customs office Höchst (A)
then turn right at the first junction
on the B202 via Fußach and Hard direction Bregenz Zentrum (Rheinstraße)
straight ahead to the sign "Festspielhaus" turn right onto the bridge
by car from Germany
Motorway A14 (toll sticker required)
Pfänder Tunnel
after the tunnel first exit right to Bregenz
city tunnel
after the tunnel keep right (Rheinstraße)
after approx. 400 m turn right onto the bridge (sign "Festspielhaus")
Federal road (coming from Lindau)
B190 direction Bregenz (along Lake Constance)
always follow the arrows in the direction of Switzerland
approx. 600 m after the station turn left onto the bridge (sign "Festspielhaus")
... after the bridge turn right and you are on the parking lot east (P7) in front of the Festspielhaus!
Day parking ticket
Your guests don't have to worry if they have enough coins for the parking meter! We are happy to organise daily parking tickets for your congress participants. Your project manager will be happy to inform you!
Arrival by plane
Four airports can be reached from Bregenz within an hour's drive. Shuttle services to and from Bregenz increase travel comfort. The stops are located directly at Bregenz main station.
Business Airport St. Gallen - Altenrhein
Distance 23 km, reachable in 30 minutes by car
Lake Constance Airport Friedrichshafen
Distance 38 km, reachable in 40 minutes by car
Zurich Airport
distance 120 km, reachable in one hour and 20 minutes by car
Allgäu Airport
Distance 79 km, reachable in less than an hour by car
Arrival by train
The festival district borders directly on the main railway station of the state capital Bregenz. The train station is only a five-minute walk away.
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