The week in classical: The Makropulos Affair; Elisabeth Leonskaja & Staatskapelle Streichquartett

Self-belief, urgent and impassioned, burst forth from Welsh National Opera’s new staging of Leoš Janáček’s

(1926), directed by Olivia Fuchs and conducted by Tomáš Hanus. Confidence is the elusive key to any performance, the magnet that draws you in. We may expect it from a professional opera company, but Janáček’s penultimate opera lays every obstacle in its path, from complications with the source material,…