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Article: Grammy Award Winner Mark S. Doss returns to Milan's La Scala Opera House to star in Janacek's "Makropulos Case".(Opera review)
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- Science Letter
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- January 27, 2009
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International opera star and Grammy Award winner Mark S. Doss is returning to Milan's legendary Teatro alla Scala (La Scala) to star in The Makropulos Case, the three-act opera by Czech master Leos Janacek, running from January 16 to February 3, 2009 (see also Mark S. Doss).
Mr. Doss will take on the role of Baron Jaroslav Prus in the La Scala production of the opera, which premiered in December 1926. The Makropulos Case was written in the composer's later career, two years before his death, and tells the fantastical story of a search for a secret alchemical formula that can extend a person's life by 300 years.
This will be Mr. Doss's seventh principal ...