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Metropolitan Opera: The Force of TruthPlaybill Arts Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:59 PM PDTNearly three decades after the premiere of Satyagraha , Philip Glass's seminal work from 1979 is re-imagined in a powerful new staging that conveys the timelessness of Gandhi's message. Performances begin at the Met April 11.
Gandhi and Glass: truthful togetherThe Star-Ledger Thu, 10 Apr 2008 9:43 PM PDTOf Philip Glass' many, many, many pieces, his unlikeliest may also be his most moving. "Satyagraha," an opera about Mahatma Gandhi that opens at the Metropolitan Opera tonight, isn't in Italian, German, French or even English -- it's in Sanskrit.
HIS PEACE TREATISENew York Post Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:28 PM PDTMOST composers are heard, not seen. Philip Glass is both. The master of repetitive musical form, whose "Satyagraha" opens at the Metropolitan Opera tonight, is himself a repetitive form - the Campbell's Soup can to Chuck Close's Andy Warhol. The...
Tan Dun's Musical MishmashThe New York Sun Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:39 PM PDTThe New York Philharmonic's concert on Wednesday night featured the premiere of a new piano concerto by Tan Dun. He is a Chinese-American composer, highly successful. One plum commission after another has come his way. The Metropolitan Opera ordered up his "First Emperor." And the Philharmonic has paid for this concerto. Conducting the orchestra was Leonard Slatkin, long the music director of ...
A Peacemaker's PuppetsWNYC New York Public Radio Thu, 10 Apr 2008 2:02 PM PDTThis Friday, a new production of Philip Glass´s Satyagraha will debut at the Metropolitan Opera. It tells the story of Mahatma Gandhi´s experiences in South Africa, ones that helped define his ....
Children´s tale to be presented on opera stageThe State Thu, 10 Apr 2008 9:07 PM PDTEveryone remembers the story about the boy and the girl lost in the forest who come upon a gingerbread house and start nibbling. Then they almost become the main course on the resident witch´s menu. In 1893 composer Engelbert Humperdinck turned the story of "Hansel and Gretel" into an opera. The Metropolitan Opera broadcast its "Hansel and Gretel" into movie theaters recently, but you can see ...

Leonard Bernstein: CandideConcertonet Thu, 10 Apr 2008 7:12 AM PDTCharles F. Prestinari (chorus director), Patricia Birch (choreography), Clarke Dunham (costume designer), Ken Billington (lighting designer), Abe Jacob (sound designer), New York City Opera Chorus, New York City Opera Associate Chorus, New York City Opera Children´s Chorus, New York City Opera Dancers, New York City Opera Character Mimes and New York City Opera Orchestra, George Manahan ...
Cast saves 'Candide'AM New York Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:57 PM PDT2.5 Stars 1950s musical theater is alive and well and living in Manhattan. Right now, you can see "Gypsy" on Broadway, "South Pacific" at Lincoln Center, "Take Me Along" at the Irish Repertory Theatre, and now "Candide" at New York City Opera. And while NYCO's "Candide," first staged in 1982, is a problematic production, an exceptionally strong cast is bringing it to life like never before. ...
IT'S NICE, BUT NOT BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDSNew York Post Thu, 10 Apr 2008 1:39 AM PDTIT would be ironic if the most substantial contribution America made to 20th-century opera turned out to be a Broadway musical - Leonard Bernstein's "Candide." Tuesday night, New York City Opera brought it back, in its by now familiar and agreeably...