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...three weeks his latest opera, Akhnaten, gets its British premiere at the English National Opera in London. Akhnaten received its first performance last year in Stuttgart, and has since played to packed houses in Houston and New York City. An earlier full-length opera, Satyagraha, which has had several productions in the U.S. and Europe, has been recorded by CBS Masterworks for release in July; Beverly Sills, a confirmed fan, has scheduled it for the New York City Opera next year. And last December the Brooklyn Academy of Music revived Einstein on the Beach, a 4 1/2-hour opera by Glass...
Glass, 47, in recent years has become a leading opera composer through such works as Satyagraha (1980) and Akhnaten, which was premiered in Stuttgart in March. Glass describes Act V of the CIV IL warSas his "romantic" opera. The repetitive rhythms and melodic figurations that are his trademark are still present, but the score is suffused with an Italianate warmth and passion that explicitly recall Verdi in some passages. The most dramatic of these occurs when Garibaldi, who has been sitting in a box placidly viewing the action onstage, suddenly interrupts to deliver an aria about his life that...
...spite of such skepticism, minimalism has grown rapidly in popularity. Last fall, Glass's visionary opera Satyagraha sold out five performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music after being performed successfully at Artpark in upstate New York and in Europe. At the Royal Palace in Amsterdam last May, Glass's newest music-theater piece, The Photographer, was premiered at a command performance for Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands. And in Chicago this summer, 10,000 listeners at Grant Park lustily cheered a performance of Adams' powerful 1981 choral piece, Harmonium. "When I was a student," says Adams...
...hangs in New York's Whitney Museum. Glass's adventurous collaboration with avant-garde Dramatist Robert Wilson resulted in Einstein on the Beach, an experimental five-hour "opera" that played to packed houses in Europe and twice sold out the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Satyagraha, a more conventional work based on an episode from the life of Gandhi, is perhaps the most accessible, spiritually exhilarating opera composed since World...
...York City Opera. Keene is a master of the grand gesture and can make the sparks fly even in a piece as reflective as Britten's War Requiem. An exponent of new music, he led the U.S. premiere in 1981 of Philip Glass's visionary opera, Satyagraha...