316-Year-Old Woman Is So Done With Everybody

 I really like the production design of this 1995 Glyndbourne Makropulos Affair. I do have to headcannon that the lead singer looks younger to the other characters than she does to the audience; but she’s doing a really interesting/creepy job of suddenly looking *even* older, depending on the angle and expression. I’m trying to decide if the costume designer deliberately made her look ironically younger in her last couple of scenes before death, mainly by virtue of abandoning the skull-hugging scarves and headpieces she wore in the first two acts. I do kind of wish she’d run off with the crazy old Count who seems to be one of the few people she still has human feelings for.
ETA — also the count doesn’t look nearly as old as the character logically ought to.


another ETA — This Russian production apparently has ghosts running around in the background through the whole show: https://youtu.be/x2P0ghVqTTQ