The Makropulos Case, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: "But everybody ends up dying!" laments Emilia Marty as the penny drops for those gathered around her deathbed in Opera North's enthralling, slick version of Janacek's 1926 masterpiece. If the man-eating diva is telling the truth, then she really is 337 years old - the guinea pig for an elixir of life invented in 1585 - and had she revealed the unlikely fact from the ou…