At the heart of Věc Makropulos is a recipe for a life-prolonging elixir invented by the doctor Hieronymus Makropulos for Emperor Rudolf II. It was tested on the doctor's beautiful daughter, who has ...
What if you could live forever? The famous and mysterious singer Emilia Marty has lived for over 300 years thanks to an elixir of immortality. But when she becomes entangled in a legal battle to renew ...
The San Francisco Opera revived director Olivier Tambosi's perfect production of composer Leos Janacek's strange and compelling Vec Makropulos (The Makropulos Case) last week after an absence of only ...
Of all the abductions, this one is different.