It happens so quickly that you are left wondering if it ever happened at all. During a frenzied onslaught of music dominated by a manic piano line, 11 massive puppets seemingly float onstage above the ...

“Satyagraha,” the term Mohandas K. Gandhi designated for nonviolent resistance, is often translated as “truth force.” But as the title for Philip Glass’ first opera written for the forces of an opera ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Glass' style is rebellious in nature, a kind of prog-rock or punk rock answer to ...

Composer Philip Glass’s opera “Satyagraha” will be The Metropolitan Opera HD broadcast, co-sponsored by Colorado Mountain College and the National Repertory Orchestra, at 11 a.m. Saturday at the CMC ...

Philip Glass’s inspirational opera Satyagraha (Sanskrit for “truth force”), in the first revival of Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch’s innovative 2008 production, airs on THIRTEEN’s Great ...

The reason for all this unwonted activity? Philip Glass’s now iconic 1980 opera – and ENO’s biggest-selling contemporary work to date – Satyagraha has recently returned to the Coliseum following huge ...

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In 1976 Hans de Roo, the director of Netherlands Opera, suggested to Philip Glass that he follow up the revolutionary (though not particularly monetary) success of his 5-hour-long abstract music drama ...

Alan Oke as Gandhi in English National Opera's production of Philip Glass's Satyagraha Credit: Photo: Alastair Muir An opera about MK Gandhi sounds pretty unlikely. An art form known for grandiose ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Everybody who is anybody came on Friday to experience what Peter Gelb, unblushing head of the Met, labelled “a ...