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Prom 45: Janacek: The Makropulos Affair

2016

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A performance of Janacek's opera The Makropulos Affair, with the BBC SO and Singes.

Live at the Royal Albert Hall, Janacek's opera The Makropulos Affair, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers conducted by Jiri Belohlavek and a cast including Karita Mattila.

Live at BBC Proms: Janacek's opera The Makropulos Affair. Jirí Belohlávek conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers and a cast including Karita Mattila as Emilia Marty.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Janacek: The Makropulos Affair (concert performance; sung in Czech)
Acts 1 & II

20.45 INTERVAL: Proms Extra - The Makropulos Affair Considered
Louise Fryer talks to Janacek experts Nigel Simeone and Jan Smaczny about The Makropulos Affair. Part of a discussion recorded before the performance at the Students' Union, Imperial College.

21.05
Act III

Emilia Marty ..... Karita Mattila (soprano)
Albert Gregor ..... Aleš Briscein (tenor) 
Dr Kolenatý ..... Gustáv Belácek (bass-baritone)
Vítek ..... Jan Vacík (tenor) 
Kristina, Vitek's daughter .... Eva Šterbová (soprano) 
Baron Jaroslav Prus ..... Svatopluk Sem (baritone) 
Janek ..... Aleš Vorácek (tenor) 
Count Hauk-Šendorf ..... Jan Ježek (tenor) 
Stage Technician .... Jiri Klecker (baritone) 
Cleaning Woman ..... Yvona Škvárová (contralto) 
Chambermaid ..... Jana Hrochová-Wallingerová (contralto) 
BBC Singers (men's voices)
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
Jirí Belohlávek, conductor 
Kenneth Richardson, stage director 

A dream team gathers for Janacek's late, great existential masterpiece The Makropulos Affair. This tragic satire is powered by a score that contains some of the composer's most extreme and alluring music. 

The Finnish soprano Karita Mattila, acclaimed for her 'electrifying' portrayal of the opera's heroine, Emilia Marty, at the Met in New York, is joined by Czech singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Conductor Laureate Jirí Belohlávek.

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