brochure in PDF - Edinburgh International Festival
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32 Opera<br />
The<br />
M a k r o p u l o s<br />
Case<br />
LEOŠ JANÁČ EK<br />
LIBRETTO BY LEOŠ JANÁČ EK AFTER KAREL Č APEK<br />
New Production Premiere<br />
Sung <strong>in</strong> English with English supertitles<br />
Opera North<br />
Emilia Marty Ylva Kihlberg<br />
Albert Gregor Paul Nilon<br />
Vítek Mark Le Brocq<br />
Krist<strong>in</strong>a Stephanie Corley<br />
Jaroslav Prus Robert Hayward<br />
Janek Adrian Dwyer<br />
Dr Kolenatý James Creswell<br />
Hauk-Šendorf Nigel Robson<br />
Richard Farnes Conductor<br />
Tom Cairns Director<br />
Hildegard Bechtler Set designer<br />
Bruno Poet Light<strong>in</strong>g designer<br />
Saturday 11 August &<br />
Monday 13 August 7.15pm<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Theatre, Ed<strong>in</strong>burgh<br />
Tickets<br />
£68 £60 £52 £42 £30 £20 £16<br />
2 hours 30 m<strong>in</strong>utes approximately<br />
eif.co.uk/makropulos<br />
Monday 13 August<br />
6.00pm 7.00pm<br />
Do you wish for immortality?<br />
Even if your endless life would<br />
be one without love?<br />
The squabbl<strong>in</strong>g over the contested<br />
will of Baron Jaroslav Prus has<br />
gone on for almost a century, but<br />
the mysterious opera diva Emilia<br />
Marty seems to know far more<br />
than she should about the history<br />
of the case. Men <strong>in</strong>explicably fall<br />
at her feet and, strangely eager<br />
to possess an arcane document<br />
hidden with Prus’s will, she<br />
coldly uses them to discover<br />
its whereabouts.<br />
Supported by<br />
Dunard Fund<br />
Janáč ek’s penultimate opera is<br />
at once a mystery thriller and a<br />
meditation on desire and eternal<br />
life. It keeps its audience guess<strong>in</strong>g<br />
until its thrill<strong>in</strong>g conclusion’s<br />
transcendent revelations on life<br />
and love, and features some of<br />
the composer’s most radiant,<br />
life-affirm<strong>in</strong>g music.<br />
Richard Farnes conducts the<br />
premiere of this new production<br />
by acclaimed director Tom Cairns,<br />
with an exceptional cast of soloists.
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