In this April 18, 2012, photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera, Karita Mattila plays the 337-year-old Emilia Marty in Janacek's "The Makropulos Case" during a rehearsal at the Metropolitan Opera in ...

The world of opera is filled with mysterious women, but Emilia Marty is one of a kind. Part diva, part femme fatale, part supernatural creation, the enigmatic central character of Leos Janáček’s “The ...

In the world of opera, elixirs, divas and femmes fatales come and go like mushrooms after the rain. Janáček’s The Makropulos Case scores a hat-trick with an opera singer who has seduced and dispensed ...

The last time San Francisco Opera patrons encountered Emilia Marty, the deathless protagonist of Janácek’s taut, talky masterpiece “The Makropulos Case,” she was embodied in the alluringly imperious ...

Though many would regard Amanda Roocroft as a variable artist, she has developed of late into a fine Janáček interpreter, turning in performances as Katya Kabanova at Glyndebourne and Jenůfa for ...

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Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Ekaterina Popova as Emilia Marty performs in a scene from Leos Janacek's ...

The tension barely let up for two hours as Rattle led the London Symphony Orchestra and a commanding cast through this vital account of Janáček’s opera. It is only two months since Jakub Hrůša’s ...

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German soprano Nadja Michael, singing the lead role of San Francisco Opera’s revival of Olivier Tambosi’s riveting production of Leoš JanáÄ ek’s “The Makropulos Case,” is exceptional as a woman who ...