<sod>'''''The Makropulos Affair''''' (or ''The Makropoulos Case'', ''The Makropulos Secret'', or, [[Literal translation|literally]], ''The Makropulos Thing''; [[Czech language|Czech]] '''''Věc Makropulos'''''<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/24/arts/a-woman-skips-across-3-centuries-maintaining-her-ability-to-enchant.html | title=A Woman Skips Across 3 Centuries, Maintaining Her Ability to Enchant | work=The New York Times | author=Kenneth Furie | date=1995-12-24 | accessdate=2016-08-23}}</ref>) is a Czech [[opera]] in 3 acts, with music and libretto by [[Leoš Janáček]].  Janáček based his opera on the [[Play (theatre)|play]] [[The Makropulos Affair|of the same name]] by [[Karel Čapek]].  Composed between 1923 and 1925, ''The Makropulos Affair'' was his penultimate opera and, like much of his later work, it was inspired by his infatuation with [[Kamila Stösslová]], a married woman much younger than himself.<eod>
<sod>'''''The Makropulos Affair''''' (or ''The Makropoulos Case'', ''The Makropulos Secret'', or, [[Literal translation|literally]], ''The Makropulos Thing''; [[Czech language|Czech]] '''''Věc Makropulos'''''<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/24/arts/a-woman-skips-across-3-centuries-maintaining-her-ability-to-enchant.html | title=A Woman Skips Across 3 Centuries, Maintaining Her Ability to Enchant | work=The New York Times | author=Kenneth Furie | date=1995-12-24 | accessdate=2016-08-23}}</ref>) is a Czech [[opera]] in 3 acts, with music and libretto by [[Leoš Janáček]].  Janáček based his opera on the [[Play (theatre)|play]] [[The Makropulos Affair|of the same name]] by [[Karel Čapek]].  Composed between 1923 and 1925, ''The Makropulos Affair'' was his penultimate opera and, like much of his later work, was inspired by his infatuation with [[Kamila Stösslová]], a married woman much younger than himself.<eod>