Following the success of his first foray into opera, Einstein on the Beach, revolutionary American composer and musician Philip Glass soon turned to another great figure of the 20th century for ...

Like the familiar, undulating chords of his compositions, Philip Glass is in a state of perpetual motion. At 81, the world’s most famous taxi driver-turned-composer is busy traveling, composing, ...

Philip Glass is one of those artists who make you work for the satisfaction that is ultimately to be found in his music. His 1980 opera Satyagraha is no exception. Although it is based on Mahatma ...

Composer Philip Glass has always been ahead of his time, perhaps even to himself (he has noted that a piece he created nearly half a century ago that he recently played at Carnegie Hall would have ...

Satyagraha, by Philip Glass, comes to the Vlaamse Opera later this month. The opera is set to open Sunday, November 18, 2018 and close December 2, 2018. Satyagraha is performed in Sanskrit with Dutch ...

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Productions of Philip Glass’ opera “Satyagraha,” a meditation on the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi and his philosophy of nonviolent resistance, always seem to arrive right on time. When “Satyagraha” had ...

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 ...

The upcoming weekly lineup in the Metropolitan Opera's Nightly Met Streams series includes filmed presentations of two Philip Glass operas, neither of which are usually cataloged in the New York City ...

The Met’s first production of Philip Glass’s “Satyagraha,” a slowly paced but deeply moving opera about Gandhi’s early struggles in South Africa, is one of the major successes of the Peter Gelb regime ...

Listening to Philip Glass’s music is like stroking a cat: intensely soothing, unless you happen to be allergic. The purring repetitions, the warm, silken surface, the incantatory gestures, the ...