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Jun 8, 2017 · List of popular Philip Glass operas, listed alphabetically with photos when available. This Philip Glass operas list includes the names of all Philip Glass operas, so if you're an opera lover you might recognize many of these historic operas.
Nov 19, 2019 · Philip Glass began his operatic career in the 1970s and ’80s with a trilogy focused on great visionaries of history: “Einstein on the Beach”; “Satyagraha,” a meditation on Gandhi’s early...
Glass is known for composing several operas such as Einstein on the Beach (1976), Satyagraha (1980), Akhnaten (1983), The Voyage (1992), and The Perfect American (2013). He also wrote the scores for Broadway productions such as the revivals of The Elephant Man (2002), The Crucible (2016), and King Lear (2019).
Nov 1, 2017 · Philip Glass compositions and operas include Mad Rush (1979), originally written for the Dalai Lama’s first public address in North America; Satyagraha (1980), loosely based on the life of Ghandi and the second part of Glass’s “Portrait Trilogy” of operas about men who changed the world; Glassworks (1982), a work of six movements ...
Akhnaten is an opera in three acts based on the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), [1] written by the American composer Philip Glass in 1983. The libretto is by Philip Glass in association with Shalom Goldman, Robert Israel, Richard Riddell, and Jerome Robbins.
May 11, 2022 · Learn more about Akhnaten, Philip Glass's acclaimed opera based on the young pharaoh who transformed ancient Egypt, with the Met's In Focus podcast, hosted by Met radio commentator William...