The Makropulos Affair (opera)

This article is about the opera by Leoš Janáček. For the play by Karel Čapek, see The Makropulos Affair.
The Makropulos Affair
Opera by Leoš Janáček
Relief of the composer by Julius Pelikán
Native title
Věc Makropulos
Other titleThe Makropoulos Case
LibrettistJanáček
LanguageCzech
Based onVěc Makropulos
by Karel Čapek
Premiere
18 December 1926 (1926-12-18)
National Theatre, Brno

The Makropulos Affair (or The Makropoulos Case, The Makropulos Secret, or, literally, The Makropulos Thing; Czech Věc Makropulos[1]) is a Czech opera in 3 acts, with music and libretto by Leoš Janáček. Janáček based his opera on the play Věc Makropulos by Karel Čapek. Composed between 1923 and 1925, The Makropulos Affair was his penultimate opera and, like much of his later work, was inspired by his infatuation with Kamila Stösslová, a married woman much younger than himself.

The opera received its world premiere at the National Theatre in Brno on 18 December 1926, conducted by František Neumann.

  1. ^ Kenneth Furie (1995-12-24). "A Woman Skips Across 3 Centuries, Maintaining Her Ability to Enchant". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-08-23.