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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.
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He has written 15 operas, numerous chamber operas and musical theatre works, 14 symphonies, 12 concertos, nine string quartets, various other chamber music pieces, and many film scores. Three of his film scores have been nominated for Academy Awards . Early life and education.
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Philip Glass showed talent from a young age, having developed a great love of music from his father who owned a record store in his home town of Baltimore. He later discovered that many relations in his father’s family had been musicians too, including a pianist cousin and several vaudeville performers. His parents were Latvian and Russian-Jewish e...
A growing fascination with Indian classical music led to visits to India and contact with the pre-eminent sitar player, who later inspired The Beatles, Ravi Shankar. While working as Shankar’s assistant, Glass began to experiment by blending his Western training and with his work with Shankar. While he was making his way as a composer in the 1960s ...
Receiving huge critical acclaim for his work in opera and permeating pop culture through movie soundtracks, it’s no surprise that Glass’s influence and musical stylings are still prevalent in society today, with The Philip Glass Ensemble, founded by Glass in 1968, still performing. Glass’s compositions are still prominent in the pop culture landsca...
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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...
Feb 8, 2019 · Learn about Philip Glass, one of the most influential musicians of the twenty-first century, and his minimalist operas inspired by Indian music and historical figures. Discover his trilogy of 'portrait operas' and his film scores, and book tickets for ENO's 2021 production of Satyagraha.
Philip Glass’s mesmeric masterpiece has become an icon of contemporary opera. Satyagraha, a Sanskrit word meaning “truth force”, looks at Mahatma Gandhi’s early years in South Africa and his development of non-violent protests as a political tool.
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