About the Show
A young Cretan girl is given an elixir to extend her life by 300 years and spends the time becoming the greatest singer of all time. But along the way she passes the recipe of the elixir to a lover and now, in 1922, she’s 337 years old and in court trying to recover the paper. In the end she wins, but decides not to take the potion but to die as without mortality life has ceased to have meaning.
Sung in Czech with surtitles in Welsh and English.
Cast
Emma Bell
Emilia Marty
Nicky Spence
Albert Gregor
Gustav Belacek
Dr Kolenaty
Mark Le Brocq
Vitek - a solicitor
Harriet Eyley
Kristina
David Stout
Baron Jaroslav Prus
Alexander Sprague
Janek
Alan Oke
Count Hauk-Sendorf
Creatives
Janacek
Author
Welsh National Opera
Company
Tomas Hanus
Conductor
Olivia Fuchs
Director
Nicola Turner
Design
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