The first revival of Christopher Alden’s Laurence Olivier Award-nominated production of Janáček’s penultimate opera, The Makropulos Case.

A dream-like vision of 1920s Prague: the enigmatic and sexually irresistible opera diva Emilia Marty has taken an elixir that enables her to live for more than 300 years. AS she approaches the end of the terms for which the elixir spared her death, The Makropulos Case explores her dilemma of whether to prolong her life a further 300 years.

Amanda Roocroft’s heartbreaking performance as the heroine in David Alden’s 2006 staging of Janáček’s Jenůfa won her the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera. Now she returns to English National Opera to star as the enigmatic Emilia Marty.

A co-production with the National Theatre in Prague, this striking steel-and-glass Art Deco staging of The Makropulos Case is conducted by one of Britain’s great conducting talents, and Janáček champion, Sir Richard Armstrong.

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