I found this draft from a while ago: Oct. 28 2011
Learning about Satyagraha, the opera by Philip Glass, in preparation for attending it at the Met soon. I'm listening to it now.
Here's from Wikipedia:
"The title of the opera refers to Gandhi's concept of non-violent resistance to injustice, Satyagraha, and the text, from the Bhagavad Gita, is sung in the original Sanskrit."
Satyagraha means insistance on truth, a cool concept.
I can't believe it came out it premiered in '80. Feels very fresh to me.
From Glass' site, I learned:
The first two acts each contain three scenes; the last is one continuous scene. Each act is dominated by a single historic figure (non-singing role) overlooking the action from above: the Indian poet Ravindranath Tagore in Act I the Russian author Leo Tolstoy in Act II, the American Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr in Act III.
And that there's apparently a DVD.
Learning about Satyagraha, the opera by Philip Glass, in preparation for attending it at the Met soon. I'm listening to it now.
Here's from Wikipedia:
"The title of the opera refers to Gandhi's concept of non-violent resistance to injustice, Satyagraha, and the text, from the Bhagavad Gita, is sung in the original Sanskrit."
Satyagraha means insistance on truth, a cool concept.
I can't believe it came out it premiered in '80. Feels very fresh to me.
From Glass' site, I learned:
The first two acts each contain three scenes; the last is one continuous scene. Each act is dominated by a single historic figure (non-singing role) overlooking the action from above: the Indian poet Ravindranath Tagore in Act I the Russian author Leo Tolstoy in Act II, the American Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr in Act III.
And that there's apparently a DVD.
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