Time, the diva and death
Krzysztof Warlikowski directs The Makropulos Case in Paris (****) [live]
Author : Jos Hermans
From her father, the body physician of Rudolf II, the last Habsburg emperor, she is given an elixir of life at the age of 16. She spends a week in a coma. Then she becomes a singer, and one of the best ever. But emotionally she dries up over time. She has seen so many lives come and go that she loses interest in people and is no long…
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