The Makropulos Affair

We’re off to the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden on this week’s Sunday Opera (7/19 3:00 p.m.) and their 2025 production of Leos Janacek’s “The Makropulos Affair” or “The Makropulos Case” or “The Makropulos Case,” or “The Makropulos Thing” (a direct translation from the play by Karel Capek on which it is based). It was composed between 1923 and 1925 and had its world premiere at the National Theatre in Brno in 1926.