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The Makropulos Case review: Ausrine Stundyte is magnetic in exhilarating – and funny – Janáček staging

Katie Mitchell’s production wittily reinvigorates Janáček’s story of an immortal woman, via toxic masculinity and dating apps. Jakub Hrůša’s conducting draws out the music’s colours and the cast are uniformly strong

The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2025

The Makropulos Case at Royal Opera: A retort to 'endemic misogyny' in opera

3/5 Katie Mitchell exits opera production with a feminist telling of Janáček’s work which has plenty of attitude but flaws too

Evening Standard · Nov 5, 2025

‘I’m good at doing pain’: soprano Ausrine Stundyte on trauma, adrenaline and playing a 300-year-old woman

As she prepares to star in Janáček’s The Makropulos Case for the Royal Opera, the great singer explains that she does not play ‘the happy, jumping, sexy lady’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2025