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	The Makropulos Affair
		The Makropulos Affair (Vec Makropulos in the original Czech) is a play written in 1922 by Karel Capek that was turned into an opera by the Czech composer Leos Janacek.
		Janacek's operatic version was written between 1923 and 1925.
		It was given in Prague two years later, and in Germany in 1929, but did not become really popular until a production by the Sadler's Wells[?] company in London in 1964.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/The_Makropulos_Affair.html (185 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : The Makropulos Affair
		The Makropulos Affair (Czech Věc Makropulos) is a play written in 1922 by Karel Čapek that was turned into an opera by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček.
		Originally her name was Elina Makropulos, daughter of the alchemist Hieronymus, who lived in Prague at the end of the XVI century at the court of Emperor Rudolf II.
		The Makropulos case forms the center of a classic article by Bernard Williams, in which he argues that a person never has reason to live an immortal life.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=The_Makropulos_Affair (1550 words)

	Profumo Affair: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Profumo Affair was a political scandal of 1963 in Britain.
		Rumours about the affair became public in 1962 as did the apparently serious fact that Keeler had also had a relationship with Yevgeny "Eugene" Ivanov, an attache at the Soviet Embassy.
		Profumo's mistake was to lie in the House of Commons.
	www.encyclopedian.com /pr/Profumo-scandal.html (354 words)

	Reflections 2000
		The talk must not have been perceived as grim; the transcription of the short speech has the word "(Laughter)" punctuating it a half dozen times.
		But I did draw on Leos Janacek's opera The Makropulos Affair, in which the lead figure, Emilia Marty, is an enigmatic, egomaniacal diva with a past.
		Ravishingly beautiful at age 337, she had drunk a youth-giving elixir once in each generation.
	www.uchicago.edu /docs/millennium/marty/marty_a.html (885 words)

	Leos Janacek
		We all felt at the time that a great artistic work had been born here, which we would continue to admire more and more, which would excite us for a long time yet, and the longer the more so.
		He was at the time embroiled in the composition of The Vixen, but as soon as that was finished, and legal problems with the rights to the text were resolved, Janáček went to work.
		Since illegitimate children bore the mother's name, a descendant of "Ferdinand Makropulos" would have to be found; otherwise the estate would remain in Prus' hands.
	www.leosjanacek.co.uk /makropulos.htm (1516 words)

	Janacek Orchestral Suites
		This is not a "new" release (it was recorded in July 1996), but it is the second installment in a Janácek series by Serebrier and his impressive Brno-based orchestra that one hopes will multiply in the years to come.
		The "symphonic synthesis" that Serebrier has made from The Makropulos Affair -- an eerie, mostly parlando opera from 1923-25 based on Karel Capek's play, about a singer who has lived for three centuries and is tiring of it -- doesn't change any of the original orchestration.
		It is 31 minutes of vivid music that I prefer experiencing in the opera house (or as an orchestral tour-de-force, such as here) rather than having to listen to it in its vocal entirety on discs or radio.
	classicalcdreview.com /janaceksuites.html (347 words)

	An affair is a euphemism euphemism for a situation where two... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		An affair is a euphemism euphemism for a situation where two...
		An "affair" is a euphemism euphemism for a situation where two people are involved in an illicit sexual sexual, romantic romantic and/or passion passionate attachment, usually for a limited duration.
		Affairs in the political sense may be any kind of involvement in illicit business by any kind by public representatives, such as in the Watergate affair Watergate affair.
	www.biodatabase.de /affair (165 words)

	Affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		An event, occurrence, or matter, sometimes causing controversy: The party was a stunning affair.
		A romantic liasion or intimate relationship, often illicit: Their affair was wonderfully romantic and led to their wedding.
		Affair of the diamond necklace Cunningham-Agee Affair Dreyfus Affair Harden-Eulenburg Affair Hemings-Jefferson Affair Lavon Affair The Lewinsky Scandal (Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky) Lillehammer affair Stevenson-Lloyd George Affair Iran-Contra affair Makropulos Affair Profumo Affair Sokal Affair Spiegel Affair
	www.lezte.com /www/affair (706 words)

	The Makropulos Affair - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He had seen the play early into its run in Prague on December 12, 1922, and immediately saw its potential.
		Janáček had a penchant for choosing unusual stories for his operas, and The Makropulos Affair is a notable example.
		The heroine of this work, Emilia Marty, is a woman who has managed to live more than 300 years through the use of a miraculous elixir created by her father in the sixteenth century.
	www.wiki-mirror.us /index.php/The_Makropulos_Affair (322 words)

	Amazon.fr : Janacek: A Composer's Life: Livres en anglais: Mirka Zemanova (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		It was this improbable affair (which seems to have been entirely platonic) that inspired most of the work by which Jan cek continues to be best known: all the operas after Jenufa his first great success the Sinfonietta, the Glagolithic Mass and the passionately emotional string quartets.
		Zemanova, a Czech-born musicologist based in London, has done an admirable job of elucidating this odd relationship, relying on newly available translations of some of the correspondence between the pair, and her account of the works, particularly some of the earlier and lesser-known ones, is solidly satisfying.
		Except for some detailed musical descriptions of major works, Zemanova concentrates on how the affair with Kamila drove Janaeek to compose his best music; she uses his letters to Kamila extensively to expose the psyche of an isolated man with a fiery temper.
	www.amazon.fr /Janacek-Composers-Life-Mirka-Zemanova/dp/1555535496 (524 words)

	Capek's Modern Apocalypse
		When I look for something these three men had in common, I find only an unusual frailty, which kept them not only from living out a full lifetime but also from spending their adult years at the side of a woman or in the bosom of a family.
		He continued in this vein with a novel, The Factory of the Absolute, and a comedy, The Makropulos Affair, on the Shavian theme of longevity, both of which appeared in 1922, and the 1924 novel Krakatite.
		This debate has raged to the present day, some believing that it is appropriate to rectify the state of human affairs by force if necessary, others contending that man must try to influence conditions by changing himself first.
	www3.baylor.edu /~Jesse_Airaudi/klima1.htm (5845 words)

	Amazon.com: "The Makropulos Affair": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		280 and The Makropulos Affair (1925) F,.o p.
		One of the most celebrated sopranos of the day, Strada is quoted by l apek and JanRek in The Makropulos Affair (seepage 393) at the same time as an example of renowned vocalism and proof of the heroine's longevity.
		JANdEK'S MUSICAL LANGUAGE Fate near the start of his maturity, Vic Makropulos (The Makropulos Affair; 1923-5) and From the House of the Dead at its end show the difficulty most clearly.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/The-Makropulos-Affair (574 words)

	MSO program notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The subject of a tragic love affair may in fact have been on Tchaikovsky's mind at the time.
		Several of his most famous works were in fact completed after his 70th birthday: the operas The Cunning Little Vixens and The Makropulos Affair, the brassy Sinfonietta, and his immense Galgolitic Mass.
		Though it seems a little silly to call a piece written by a composer in his 60s an "early work," Taras Bulba is in fact one of Janácek's earliest freely-composed orchestral works--most of his earlier pieces for orchestra are arrangements of Moravian dance pieces and other folk material.
	facstaff.uww.edu /allsenj/mso/NOTES/0405/5_Feb05.htm (2170 words)

	Affair - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		An affair is usually a euphemism for a situation where two people are involved in an illicit activity.
		In lieu of this context, it can also be used to describe a meeting or some sort of business that a person must take care of.
		For example, one might say, "I have other affairs to attend to at the moment."
	www.wiki-mirror.us /index.php/Affair (347 words)

	Affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elissa Gough, The Other Woman's Guide to and from Infidelity; The journal for Women in Affairs with Married Men.
		Laurel Walum Richardson, The New Other Woman: Contemporary Single Women in Affairs With Married Men.
		This page was last modified 06:26, 18 December 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Affair (572 words)

	Biography - Leos Janacek (Bio 1912) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Janacek's modern fame rests on his four last operas, Katya Kabanova (1921), The Cunning Little Vixen (1924), The Makropulos Affair (1926) and the posthumously premiered From the House of the Dead (1930).
		What makes these works outstanding is Janacek's profound dramatic sense, which allows his operas, in spite of their brevity, to effectively communicate a complex plot.
		Janacek's extraordinary power in translating profound psychological insights into music truly comes to the fore in The Makropoulos Affair, based on a work by Karel Capek, a story about a woman with the gift of eternal youth.
	musicbase.h1.ru /PPB/ppb19/Bio_1912.htm (561 words)

	Listening to the Children of the Night
		When the affair is discovered, Leila suffers the cruel punishment here accorded unfaithful wives: she is sewn into a sack and thrown into the sea.
		It was widely rumored that she had discovered an affair between Byron and his half-sister Augusta Leigh.
		And so, one year after the Battle of Waterloo, Byron traveled across Europe, accompanied by his personal physician Dr. John Polidori.
	www.tcsn.net /jackie/Archive/listening_to_the_children_of_the.htm (4128 words)

	Quilldrivers \| Leos Janáček (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For most of the rest of her life she regretted this decision, as Janáček conducted passionate affairs, more or less openly, with other women.
		With Zdeňka he had a daughter who died at age ten, and a son who died at age two.
		In September 1927 Janáček (with The Makropulos Affair) was again up for the award he had already won in 1924 for Taras Bulba.
	www.quilldrivers.com /leos.html (3633 words)

	Moores School Faculty Profile: Joseph Evans
		Joseph Evans has appeared as leading tenor at La Scala, Ireland's Wexford Festival, the New Israeli Opera, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Opera de Nantes, Orleans, and Nancy, La Fenice in Venice, Austria's Bregenzer Festspiele, the Grand Thêatre de Genève in Switzerland, and the New York City Opera.
		During the last two seasons at HGO, he premiered the role of Richard Smythe in Jake Heggie's The End of the Affair and the role of General Garcia in the premiere of Daniel Catan's Salsipuedes.
		Upcoming appearances in Houston will include Prince Shuisky in Boris Gudonov, Arnalta in L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Basilio in La Nozze di Figaro.
	www.music.uh.edu /people/evans.html (403 words)

	Sheet Music publication - Makropulos Affair, Vocal Score Cz/G
		Sheet Music publication - Makropulos Affair, Vocal Score Cz/G
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	Editor's Note
		In every case, they need and deserve the most attentive care.
		At the end of Leo Janácek's opera The Makropulos Affair, the heroine, a most beautiful woman and beautiful singer, "has to die." She is 337 years old, an age reached because she drank an elixir whose formula has now been lost.
		She is vain, corrupt, bored, and she is indifferent as to whether she lives or dies: it's all the same to her.
	www.parkridgecenter.org /second_opinion_10_page1.html (919 words)

	New York Press
		The Kirov’s visit with a bunch of Verdi operas was poorly rehearsed and a disappointment, except for their Don Carlos.
		Glyndebourne’s revivals of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Janacek’s The Makropulos Affair were praised, but their Fidelio was a disaster.
		Since I am an incurable classical music snob, I do not normally go to musicals, but I made an exception because of Issy Van Randwyck, the star of Song of Singapore.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=5368 (863 words)

	Presto Classical - Janacek - The Makropulos Affair - Buy music CDs & DVDs online
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