The Makropulos Affair

About the show

Opera singer Emilia Marty reveals her interest in a century-old inheritance case and directs the Gregor family’s lawyer to a missing will. In pursuing a document that holds the formula for eternal life, she exposes that she is Elina Makropulos, born in 1575 and kept alive for more than three centuries by her alchemist father’s potion. As the potion wears off, she refuses another dose, and Kristina burns the formula.