Theatre Reviews

This wonderful opera by Janáček, based on a play by the great Czech writer Karel Čapek, involves a complex legal case that has been running for over a hundred years. Into this confusion steps Elena Makropulos, who exhibits unusual knowledge of the case. Born in the late sixteenth century she wants to find the secret formula to continue extending her life, but it languishes among the papers of one of the participants in the case — see my review in The Article.