Carolyn Kuan, ‘one of the most exciting and outstanding conductors of her generation’ (Marin Alsop) also made her ENO debut. Phelim McDermott returns to the Met with a new staging of Glasss Akhnaten, originally created by LA Opera, Improbable, and English National. Tonight at ENO we have it translated into English by Netia Jones (also director, costume and video designer, making her ENO debut) and Emma Jenkins. Satyagraha was most recently revived at ENO in London in 2021, with Sean Panikkar – ‘a Gandhi firm of voice and full of charisma’ (LA Times) – reprising the role of Ghandi and leading a cast that also featured bass-baritone Musa Ngqungwana as Lord Krishna and Harewood Artist William Thomas as Parsi Rustomji. A Jaw-Dropping Philip Glass Opera Is Finally on Video Satyagraha, one of the Metropolitan Opera’s greatest stagings of the 21st century, has been released on DVD and CD. LA Operas presentation of Satyagraha by Philip Glass marked the companys completion of the composers portrait trilogy of operas about powerful thinkers. In 1993, Philip Glass turned the film into a chamber opera, using the film’s entire script as his libretto. The orchestra and chorus play a pivotal role in this hauntingly beautiful and spiritual ensemble piece, which is performed in Sanskrit, the melodic language of the Bhagavad-Gita (Song of the Lord), to which Gandhi referred daily. The opera was first produced as India marked their 60th year of independence. Philip Glass began his operatic career in the 1970s and ’80s with a trilogy focused on great visionaries of history: Einstein on the Beach Satyagraha, a meditation on. Based on Mahatma Gandhi’s early years in South Africa, the opera explores how the spiritual and political leader developed non-violent protest into a powerful force for change. This production of Akhnaten was originally created by LA Opera, Improbable, and English National Opera, where it premiered, winning the 2017 Olivier Award for. Satyagraha is the second in Glass’s landmark trilogy of “portrait” operas about men who changed the world. Presented and revived eight times in both London, New York and Los Angeles, Philip Glass’s Satyagraha was Improbable’s first collaboration with English National Opera.
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