Opera

Die Sache Makropulos

The Makropulos Affair
Leoš Janáček (1854 – 1928)
Opera in three acts
Sung in Czech, with German surtitles.
Libretto by the composer, based on the play by the same name (1922) by Karel Capek
Premiere: 1926 in Brno

Trailer: Theater TV – Ullrich Bohn
Darcy Carroll, Elissa Huber
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Erik Biegel
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Elissa Huber, Darcy Carroll, Erik Biegel, Jiří Sulženko, Fleuranne Brockway, Aaron Cawley
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Romina Boscolo, Mikhail Biryukov
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Romina Boscolo
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Elissa Huber, Aaron Cawley
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Jiří Sulženko, Elissa Huber
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Gustavo Quaresma, Fleuranne Brockway
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Ralf Rachbauer, Elissa Huber
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Elissa Huber, Darcy Carroll
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Elissa Huber
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Elissa Huber
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Elissa Huber, Ralf Rachbauer
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster
Fleuranne Brockway, Dancers
Photo: Karl und Monika Forster

Leoš Janáček's penultimate opera "The Makropulos Affair" is a Kafkaesque metaphor, a meta-opera and a parable about the value of life and the longing for immortality. At the beginning of the 17th century, Emilia Marty took an elixir that extends life by 300 years. But apparently this long life does not make her happy: after this time she has nothing but contempt for life and the living. Nevertheless, she does not want to die. When the effect begins to wear off, she tries to get the potion back by any means necessary.

With Janáček's last two operas, "The Makropulos Affair" and "From a House of the Dead", the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden brings an as yet unprecedented and intriguing double bill to the stage. "To experience these two operas interwoven with each other is an exciting journey beneath the skin of human existence." – Director Nicolas Brieger

PREMIERE: 30 April 2023

»Making-of« Trailer

Making-of #1
Video: De-Da Productions
Making-of #2
Video: De-Da Productions

Cast

Conductor Johannes Klumpp
Director Nicolas Brieger
Stage Design Raimund Bauer
Costume Design Andrea Schmidt-Futterer
Choreography Valentí Rocamora i Torà
Lighting Design Andreas Frank
Chorus Master Albert Horne
Dramaturgy Constantin Mende
Emilia Marty Elissa Huber
Albert Gregor Aaron Cawley
Baron Jaroslav Prus Jiří Sulženko
Kristina Fleuranne Brockway
Vitek Erik Biegel
Janek Prus Gustavo Quaresma
Dr. Kolenatý Darcy Carroll
Stage Technician Mikhail Biryukov
Count Hauk-Šendorf Ralf Rachbauer
Chambermaid Romina Boscolo
Dancers Jasper H. Hanebuth, Felix Chang, Mar Sanchez Cisneros, Tamara Kurti, Gabriella Lemma, Carla Peters, Gabriele Ascani, Joel Spinello
Chor & Statisterie des Hessischen Staatstheaters Wiesbaden, Hessisches Staatsorchester Wiesbaden

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