Bachtrack logo
What's on
Reviews
Articles
News
Video
Site
Young artists
Travel

The Makropulos Affair

Opéra de Lille2 Rue des Bons Enfants, Lille, Hauts-de-France, 59800, France
Dates/times in Paris time zone
Thursday 05 February 202620:00
Saturday 07 February 202618:00
Tuesday 10 February 202620:00
Thursday 12 February 202620:00
Friday 13 February 202618:00
Monday 16 February 202620:00
Performers
Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
Dennis Russell DaviesConductor
Kornél MundruczóDirector
Monika PormaleSet Designer, Costume Designer
Felice RossLighting Designer
Orchestre National de Lille
Marcos DarbyshireRevival Director
Véronique GensSopranoEmilia Marty / Elina Makropoulos
Robin AdamsBaritoneBaron Jaroslav Prus
Marie-Andrée Bouchard-LesieurMezzo-sopranoKristina
Jean-Paul FouchécourtTenorCount Hauk-Šendorf

Is a life without the limitation of death bearable? That crucial question is posed by The Makropulos Affair by Leoš Janáček. Elina Makropulos has been on earth for three hundred years thanks to an elixir of life that her father, alchemist and personal physician to Emperor Rudolf II, tested on her. Now she urgently wants to find the formula for the elixir – the 'Makropulos affair' – before the drink runs out. For all those countless years she has lived under different names with the initials 'E M'. As the opera singer Emilia Marty she turns up during the protracted legal case about the family and inheritance issue 'Gregor contra Prus'. She knows a surprising amount about the history of the bitter, warring parties... Janáček's opera thriller is a piece of cake for the Hungarian theatre and film director Kornél Mundruczó, who constantly explores the boundary between realism and transcendence. The acclaimed production he created for OBV in 2016 can be experienced again at the Opéra de Lille.

Reviews of The Makropulos Case (Věc Makropulos) directed by Kornél Mundruczó

Mobile version