Opera in two parts
Libretto by VIKTOR DYK , Fn...\:":nSEK S. PROCHAZKA and others, after the satirical novels of SVATOPLUK CECH
Music by Janacek
(sung in Czech): records A befuddled Broucek imagines himself transported through space from the Prague of 1888 to the moon, where his coarse philistinism appears particularly gross among the ethereal aesthetes he meets there. Then. in Part 2. he goes back in time to 15th-century Prague, to perhaps the most gloriously heroic day in Czech history, beside which his feeble cowardice also seems gross.
Mr Matej Broucek vii.em pribyl (tenor)
Other parts sung by jana JONASOVA (soprano) jirina markova (soprano) libuse marova (contralto) miroslav svejda (tenor) VLADIMIR KREJCIK (tenor) jaroslav soucek (baritone) rtne tucek (baritone)
BouusLAV marsik (bass-bar) RICHARD NOVAK (bass) KAREL 1IANUS (bass) CZECH PHILHARMONIC
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by FKANTISEK JILEK