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Waiting for the Barbarians is an opera in two acts composed by Philip Glass, with libretto by Christopher Hampton based on the 1980 novel of the same name by South African-born author John M. Coetzee. The opera was commissioned by the Theater Erfurt in Erfurt, Germany. Performance history.
Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South African writer J. M. Coetzee. First published in 1980, it was chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction.
- John Maxwell Coetzee
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Jun 15, 2023 · Glass&Synth. 53 subscribers. 9. 149 views 2 months ago. Waiting for the Barbarians. Opera in two acts. Libretto by Christopher Hampton based on the novel by John M. Coetzee. Waiting...
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Sep 13, 2005 · Premiered in Erfurt, central Germany, Waiting for the Barbarians is Glass's 21st opera. And if quality has not always gone hand in hand with that quantity, over the years he has developed...
Waiting for the Barbarians is an opera in two acts composed by Philip Glass, with libretto by Christopher Hampton based on the 1980 novel of the same name by South African-born author John M. Coetzee. The opera was commissioned by the Theater Erfurt in Erfurt, Germany. Contents. Performance history. Synopsis. Structure. Recording. References.
By Jennifer Pyron. (Photo Credit: Kevin Condon) Death of Classical (DOC) and The Alexander S. Onassis Benefit Foundation presented “Waiting for the Barbarians,” a one-night-only concert part of “Archive of Desire: A Festival Inspired by the Poet C.P. Cavafy” curated by prolific composer Paola Prestini and under the creative direction of ...
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Were Glass to have set Waiting For The Barbarians more explicitly in contemporary America (the libretto is no more specific than "some time in the last millennium"), he'd no doubt be dubbed unpatriotic and failing to 'support the troops'. As it is, he is at first humiliated and then tortured himself for his actions.
