After a long night in his favourite local, the less than sober Mr Brouček 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 Janáček’s homeland.

Rarely presented in the UK, this is one of Janáček's most original works and the music is as varied as Brouček’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.

‘Witty and perceptive’ The Independent
 

**** The Guardian
 

Sung in English with English supertitles. 

Find out more about Janáček's music in the Financial Times.