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Sunday Afternoon at the Opera - Janacek: The Makropulos Case
Sunday Afternoon at the Opera host Keith Brown writes:
This opera by Leos Janacek (1854-1928) is a cautionary tale for those who think it would be wonderful to live forever. Its plot concerns a legal dispute over a rich man's will. Only one of the contestants for the estate, a glamorous singing star, knows the secret contained in the baron's documents. Vec Makropulos (1926) was the eighth in a series of psychologically piercing music dramas to spring from the brain of this passionately nationalistic Czech composer from Moravia.
Supraphon, the old Czechoslovak state record label, recorded The Makropulos Case in its studios in Prague in 1966 with a cast of native Czech singers who are part of the Prague National Theatre ensemble, directed by Bohumil Gregor. I last broadcast The Makropulos Case way back on Sunday, February 1, 1987. I present it again today on the same Supraphon stereo LPs.