Teatr Marthalera w operze Janáčka
Marthaler’s Theatre in Janáček’s Opera

Summary/Abstract: A review of Leoš Janáček’s The Makropulos Affair, directed by Christoph Marthaler (Polish premiere: the Grand Theatre – National Opera, 17 II 2013). In the reviewer’s opinion, the director plays a daring and wicked game with operatic convention and the expectations of the opera audience. For in this production, the unique style of Marthaler’s theatre is extremely evident, featuring, as it does, the reappearance of his favourite motifs and modes of action. Marthaler also adds a metaphysical comedy dimension to The Makropoulos Affair, combining the myth of eternal youth with enslavement, mechanical repetition, inertia, exhaustion, boredom, emptiness and, above all, the suspension of time and loss of self-esteem.

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