Emilia Marty, the opera's heroine, is a glamorous singer with a hidden and lengthy past. At age sixteen, she (then known as Elina Makropulos) drank a potion prepared by her alchemist father to enable her to live forever. She stopped aging at thirty, and has spent 300 years roaming the world, fr...
Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Janáček, Leoš, 1854-1928 |
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| Corporate Authors: |
Canadian Opera Company
(Performer),
Video Artists International |
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| Other Authors: |
Čapek, Karel, 1890-1938,
Mansouri, Lotfi,
Campbell, Norman, 1924-2004,
Harris, Jonathan, approximately 1919-,
Smith, Muriel,
Sundine, Stephanie
(Performer),
Orth, Robert (Baritone)
(Performer),
Klobučar, Berislav, 1924-2014
(Conductor),
Opthof, Cornelis
(Performer),
Clark, Graham
(Performer),
Margison, Richard, 1953-
(Performer),
Brett, Kathleen
(Performer) |
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| Format: | Video
VHS
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| Language: | Czech |
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| Language Notes: | Sung in Czech; English subtitles. |
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| Published: |
New York, N.Y. :
Video Artists International,
1989
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| Subjects: | |
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