Or is it simply a well-made play disrupted by theatre of the absurd and turned for good measure into a tragic music drama? The truth is that it’s all these things and more, a work of stunning ...

Claus Guth’s 2022 staging of The Makropulos Affair at the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden – here revived for the first time – approaches Janáček’s knotty opera with a unique tragicomic sensibility, ...

The Christoph Marthaler production of Leoš Janáček's "Věc Makropulos", recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele on 8 & 30 August 2011. Angela Denoke stars as Emilia Marty, with Raymond Very as ...

A young Cretan girl is given an elixir to extend her life by 300 years and spends the time becoming the greatest singer of all time. But along the way she passes the recipe of the elixir to a lover ...