Scottish Opera: The Adventures of Mr Broucek

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Dissolute and disillusioned, Janácek's comic hero relocates to the moon for a better life. When the lunar avant-garde prove to be too much he travels instead back to 15th century Prague, where he is sentenced to death in a beer barrel. The surreality is underlined by Janácek's colourfully original score. Co-produced with Opera North, directed by John Fulljames and with soloists John Graham Hall, Frances McCafferty and Donald Maxwell.

Scottish Opera: The Adventures of Mr Broucek

Scottish Opera: The Adventures of Mr Broucek

Wed 14 April, Fri 16 April

By Leoš Janácek

Wed 14 & Fri 16 April 7.15pm

Sung in English with English supertitles
A new co-production with Opera North

After a long night in his favourite local, the less than sober Mr Broucek embarks on two fantastical journeys: first to the moon, where he disgusts the inhabitants with his beer-swilling and sausage-eating antics, and then to the middle of a revolution in 15th-century Prague, where he finds himself in a good deal of trouble...

By turns funny, surreal, tender and thrilling, his journey is full of larger than life characters and wonderful portraits and parodies – of artists, poets, soldiers, and the ordinary people of Janácek’s homeland.

Rarely presented in the UK, this is one of Janácek's most original works and the music is as varied as Broucek’s adventures – from the extra-terrestrial sounds of the moon to gorgeous orchestral interludes, bagpipes, an organ and stirringly patriotic Hussite hymns sung by a 40 strong chorus.

John Fulljames directs a superb cast including English tenor John Graham-Hall as Mr Broucek, Scottish contralto Frances McCafferty and celebrated Scottish baritone Donald Maxwell.

Production supported by The Alexander Gibson Circle

Running time – approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes

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