Composer Philip Glass's 'Portrait Trilogy' of operas consists of Einstein on the Beach, Akhnaten and Satyagraha with the last one focusing on whom?
"by Glass as portraits of people whose personal vision transformed the thinking of their times through the power of ideas rather than by military force. Glass and Wilson first met to discuss the prospects of a collaborative work, and decided on an opera of between four and five hours in length based around a historical persona. Wilson initially suggested Charlie Chaplin or Adolf Hitler, whom Glass outright rejected, while Glass proposed Mahatma Gandhi (later the central figure of his opera ""Satyagraha""). Albert Einstein was the eventual compromise. ""Einstein on the Beach"" premiered on July 25, 1976, at the Avignon Festival"
"procession from the beginning of the opera appears on the horizon, and they join it. The music introduces a bass line from the beginning of ""Einstein on the Beach"", the first part of Glass's ""portrait"" trilogy (The second one being ""Satyagraha"" and the third one ""Akhnaten""), thus providing a musical bracket for the whole trilogy. Notes Sources Akhnaten (opera) Akhnaten is an opera in three acts based on the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), written by the American composer Philip Glass in 1983. The libretto is by Philip Glass in association with Shalom Goldman,"
"Leigh Warren Leigh Warren (born 1952) is an Australian contemporary dance choreographer and Artistic Director of Leigh Warren & Dancers (LWD) having previously been at the Australian Dance Theatre. He choreographed and directed the ""Portrait Trilogy"" of operas by Philip Glass (Akhnaten (2002), Einstein on the Beach (2006) and Satyagraha (2007)) performed by LWD, the Adelaide Vocal Project and the State Opera of South Australia. Warren studied at Valrene Tweedie's Australian Academy of Ballet in Sydney, New South Wales and the Australian Ballet School. He was awarded an Australian Churchill Fellowship to study in 1974 at The Juilliard School in"
"3, episode 5 of the ""Mr. Robot"" television series. Einstein on the Beach Einstein on the Beach is an opera in four acts (framed and connected by five ""knee plays"" or intermezzos), composed by Philip Glass and directed by theatrical producer Robert Wilson. The opera eschews traditional narrative in favor of a formalist approach based on structured spaces laid out by Wilson in a series of storyboards. The music was written ""in the spring, summer and fall of 1975"". Glass recounts the collaborative process: ""I put [Wilson’s notebook of sketches] on the piano and composed each section like a portrait"
"the Beach"". A poem by Christopher Knowles is read over the musical soprano saxophone and bass clarinet line and in the poem's meanderings, it mentions such ""TV personalities"" as David Cassidy. A shortened version of this piece was chosen along with three other selections from ""Einstein on the Beach"" to appear on another Philip Glass album ""Songs from the Trilogy"", which also included selections from Glass's operas ""Satyagraha"" and ""Akhnaten"". The section's title is a reference to a Carole King song of the same name, from her album ""Tapestry"". Two ""complete"" recordings of the opera have been made: the first"
"New York where he studied with Kazuko Hirabayashiu of the Martha Graham School. Warren has danced with: He lectured at the Victorian College of the Arts before being appointed artistic director of the Australian Dance Theatre (1987–1992). He formed and has directed Leigh Warren & Dancers from 1992 to the present. Leigh Warren Leigh Warren (born 1952) is an Australian contemporary dance choreographer and Artistic Director of Leigh Warren & Dancers (LWD) having previously been at the Australian Dance Theatre. He choreographed and directed the ""Portrait Trilogy"" of operas by Philip Glass (Akhnaten (2002), Einstein on the Beach (2006) and"
"in the spring of 1975 and completed by the following November, and those drawings were before me all the time."" The premiere took place on July 25, 1976, at the Avignon Festival in France. The opera contains writings by Christopher Knowles, Samuel M. Johnson and Lucinda Childs. It is Glass's first and longest opera score, taking approximately five hours in full performance without intermission; given the length, the audience is permitted to enter and leave as desired. The work became the first in Glass's thematically related Portrait Trilogy, along with ""Satyagraha"" (1979), and ""Akhnaten"" (1983). These three operas were described"
"Einstein on the Beach Einstein on the Beach is an opera in four acts (framed and connected by five ""knee plays"" or intermezzos), composed by Philip Glass and directed by theatrical producer Robert Wilson. The opera eschews traditional narrative in favor of a formalist approach based on structured spaces laid out by Wilson in a series of storyboards. The music was written ""in the spring, summer and fall of 1975"". Glass recounts the collaborative process: ""I put [Wilson’s notebook of sketches] on the piano and composed each section like a portrait of the drawing before me. The score was begun"
"State Opera. While planning a third part of his ""Portrait Trilogy"", Glass turned to smaller music theatre projects such as the non-narrative ""Madrigal Opera"" (for six voices and violin and viola, 1980), and ""The Photographer"", a biographic study on the photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1982). Glass also continued to write for the orchestra with the score of ""Koyaanisqatsi"" (Godfrey Reggio, 1981–1982). Some pieces which were not used in the film (such as ""Façades"") eventually appeared on the album ""Glassworks"" (1982, CBS Records), which brought Glass's music to a wider public. The ""Portrait Trilogy"" was completed with ""Akhnaten"" (1982–1983, premiered in 1984),"
"new overall structure. (...) I'd taken everything out with my early works and it was now time to decide just what I wanted to put in—a process that would occupy me for several years to come."" Parts 1 and 2 of ""Another Look at Harmony"" were included in a collaboration with Robert Wilson, a piece of musical theater later designated by Glass as the first opera of his portrait opera trilogy: ""Einstein on the Beach"". Composed in spring to fall of 1975 in close collaboration with Wilson, Glass's first opera was first premiered in summer 1976 at the Festival d'Avignon,"
"Akhnaten (opera) Akhnaten is an opera in three acts based on the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), 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. ""Akhnaten"" was commissioned by Württembergische Staatstheater, Stuttgart and had its world premiere on March 24, 1984, at the Stuttgart State Theatre, under the German title ""Echnaton"". Paul Esswood sang the title role, German director Achim Freyer staged the opera in an abstract style with highly ritualistic movements. The American premiere,"
"April 2017. It is directed by Kay Voges and is supposed to be the first production of ""Einstein on the Beach"" without Glass or Wilson personally involved. From the beginning of Glass and Wilson's collaboration, they insisted on portraying the icon purely as a historical figure, in the absence of a storyline attached to his image. While they did incorporate symbols from Einstein's life within the opera's scenery, characters, and music, they intentionally chose not to give the opera a specific plot. This is in accord with Wilson's formalist approach, which he asserts creates more truth on stage than naturalist"
"collaborations and commissions, transforming the creative process by engaging with specific ideas and perspectives, investing in the future by cultivating artist-citizens in partnership with educational organizations. She is lauded for her programs of Bach. She performed and recorded a series ""Bach and Beyond"" which has received high critical praise. She frequently premieres and records contemporary music of composers like Kaija Saariaho, John Zorn, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. In 2012, Koh was a featured performer in the revival of the Philip Glass/Robert Wilson opera ""Einstein on the Beach"", portraying the role of Einstein. Through duo commissions performed by violinist Jennifer Koh and"
"the Spoleto Festival; it was conducted by John Kennedy and directed by Sam Helfrich, featuring an English translation by Saskia M. Wesnigk-Wood. This is the third opera by Glass to be inspired by a physicist, after ""Einstein on the Beach"" (1976) and ""Galileo Galilei"" (2002). ""Fragments from the life and ideas of the scientist Johannes Kepler are contrasted with segments from the story of creation and poems by Andreas Gryphius, which portray Europe during the Thirty Years War."" Kepler (opera) Kepler is an opera by Philip Glass set to a libretto in German and Latin by Martina Winkel. It premiered"
"Philip Glass Ensemble The Philip Glass Ensemble is an American musical group founded by composer Philip Glass in 1968 to serve as a performance outlet for his experimental minimalist music. The Ensemble's instrumentation became a hallmark of Glass's early minimalist style. After Glass wrote his first opera, ""Einstein on the Beach"", for the Ensemble in 1976, he began to compose for other instrumentation more frequently, but he still retains the core ensemble instrumentation. While the Ensemble's instrumentation has varied over the years, it has generally consisted of amplified woodwinds (typically saxophones, flutes, and bass clarinet) keyboard synthesizers, and solo soprano"
"act with pure intentions, when one's faces difficult and repugnant choices. Philip Glass retold the story of Gandhi's early development as an activist in South Africa through the text of the ""Gita"" in the opera ""Satyagraha"" (1979). The entire libretto of the opera consists of sayings from the ""Gita"" sung in the original Sanskrit. In Douglas Cuomo's ""Arjuna's dilemma"", the philosophical dilemma faced by Arjuna is dramatised in operatic form with a blend of Indian and Western music styles. The 1993 Sanskrit film, ""Bhagavad Gita"", directed by G. V. Iyer won the 1993 National Film Award for Best Film. The"
"lapis lazuli, the stylised poses in the paintings, the hieroglyphics, and in particular the love story of Akhnaten and his queen Nefertiti. Then by chance we came across the CD of a new opera by Philip Glass, called, of all things Akhnaten. This is not exactly top ten material – minimalist style, vastly long phrases of repeated notes, but in mood just what Chris was looking for. All we needed was to reduce a three-hour epic to 30 minutes. To do that demanded total immersion in the story and imagery. It was an odd thing to do, which involved some"
"Christopher Knowles Christopher Knowles (born 1959) is an American poet and painter. He was born in New York City and has received a diagnosis of possible brain damage. He is often referred to as autistic. In 1976, his poetry was used by Robert Wilson for the avant-garde minimalist Philip Glass opera, ""Einstein on the Beach"". Wilson describes his discovery of the then 13-year-old Knowles in the extended notes to the Tomato Records release of ""Einstein on the Beach"": In early 1973 a man ... gave me an audio tape ... I was fascinated. The tape was entitled ""Emily Likes the"
"Philadelphia staged ""Christopher Knowles: In A Word,"" a solo exhibition of work spanning Knowles' career. The exhibition travels to the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 2017. Christopher Knowles Christopher Knowles (born 1959) is an American poet and painter. He was born in New York City and has received a diagnosis of possible brain damage. He is often referred to as autistic. In 1976, his poetry was used by Robert Wilson for the avant-garde minimalist Philip Glass opera, ""Einstein on the Beach"". Wilson describes his discovery of the then 13-year-old Knowles in the extended notes to the Tomato Records release of"
"on public television, titled ""Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera"". In 1988, opera director Achim Freyer (who had staged the world premiere of Glass's ""Akhnaten"" in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1984) designed and staged a reworked version in a highly abstract style, with new spoken texts from the early 20th century, at the Stuttgart State Opera. As with the premiere, this version was also conducted by Michael Riesman. In 1992, a revival was mounted by International Production Associates that included the participation of Wilson, Glass and Childs. The production was re-staged at the McCarter theater at Princeton University."
"and in November of the same year to a mixed and partly enthusiastic reaction from the audience at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Scored for the Philip Glass Ensemble, solo violin, chorus, and featuring actors (reciting texts by Christopher Knowles, Lucinda Childs and Samuel M. Johnson), Glass's and Wilson's essentially plotless opera was conceived as a ""metaphorical look at Albert Einstein: scientist, humanist, amateur musician—and the man whose theories (...) led to the splitting of the atom"", evoking nuclear holocaust in the climactic scene, as critic Tim Page pointed out. As with ""Another Look at Harmony"", """"Einstein"" added"
"that gold lapis lazuli, the stylised poses in the paintings, the hieroglyphics, and in particular the love story of Akhnaton and his queen Nefertiti. Then by chance we came across the CD of a new opera by Philip Glass, called, of all things Akhnaton. This is not exactly top ten material – minimalist style, vastly long phrases of repeated notes, but in mood just what Chris was looking for. All we needed was to reduce a three-hour epic to 30 minutes. To do that demanded total immersion in the story and imagery. It was an odd thing to do, which"
"myth. Einstein wrote with his right hand, and authoritative sources state flatly that he was right-handed. An autopsy on Einstein's brain showed a symmetry between the two hemispheres, rather than a left-sided dominance as is typical of most right-handed people or a right-sided dominance as found in most left-handed people. Several schools are named after him. Einstein has been the subject of or inspiration for many novels, films and plays, such as Steve Martin's comedic play ""Picasso at the Lapin Agile"". He was the subject of Paul Dessau's 1974 opera ""Einstein"" and in 1976 in Philip Glass's opera ""Einstein on"
"theater. Wilson structured ""Einstein on the Beach"" as a repeating sequence of three different kinds of space. Between major acts are shorter entr'actes known as ""knee plays,"" a signature technique that Wilson has applied throughout his oeuvre. Propelling idea of ""non-plot"" within ""Einstein on the Beach"", its libretto employs solfège syllables, numbers, and short sections of poetry. In an interview, Glass comments that he originally intended for his audience to construct personal connections with Einstein as a character and with the music that he assigns to the icon. For example, the music within the first of the opera's ""Knee Plays"""
"musicians of India sitting together in the front row, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Alla Rakha and Salamat Ali Khan. He has collaborated with John McLaughlin, Philip Glass, Paco Pena, Evelyn Glennie and Django Bates. Nishat Khan performed live with John McLaughlin in Italy in 1986 and featured on his album ""The Promise"". Performed at a comparative music concert with Philip Glass and collaborated with him on his opera of ""Satyagraha"" in which he played ""Tilak Kamod"" in South Germany in 1993. Paco Pena and Khan have had several tours in the UK and Europe as part of his group"
"Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (other titles include International title Glass, Hungarian title Glass - Philip portréja 12 felvonásban) is a 2007 documentary on the life of American composer Philip Glass directed by Scott Hicks. The film was nominated for Emmy Awards and AFI Award All the persons below play their own life roles. The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics community. It currently holds four star rating out of five on Rotten Tomatoes, a movie grading website, and a rating score of 55 out of 100"
"Mahatma"" documented Gandhi's time in South Africa and his transformation from an inexperienced barrister to recognised political leader. Gandhi was a central figure in the 2006 Bollywood comedy film ""Lage Raho Munna Bhai"". Jahnu Barua's ""Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara"" (I did not kill Gandhi), places contemporary society as a backdrop with its vanishing memory of Gandhi's values as a metaphor for the senile forgetfulness of the protagonist of his 2005 film, writes Vinay Lal. The 1979 opera ""Satyagraha"" by American composer Philip Glass is loosely based on Gandhi's life. The opera's libretto, taken from the ""Bhagavad Gita"", is sung"
"Fort Worth Opera, a co-commission with Opéra de Montréal. His work with Bard SummerScape in the New York Hudson Valley featured six revivals or North American premieres: In 2014, he directed ""Satyagraha"", the first opera by Philip Glass to be produced in Russia, at the Ekaterinburg State Academic Opera. The production was nominated for five Golden Mask awards, including Best Production and Best Director. It won the 2016 Critics' Prize for Best Director and additionally the production won the prize for Best Chorus. Also in Ekaterinburg, his production of Weinberg's ""The Passenger"" was the first to be performed in the"
"poem itself. Symphony No. 6 (Glass) Symphony No. 6, also known as the Plutonian Ode Symphony, is a symphony composed by Philip Glass. It is based on the poem ""Plutonian Ode"" by Allen Ginsberg; parts of which are sung by the soprano soloist in the work. The symphony was commissioned by Carnegie Hall in honor of Glass' 65th birthday and as a vehicle for the talents of soprano Lauren Flanigan. The symphony premiered on February 2, 2002 at Carnegie Hall with Dennis Russell Davies conducting the American Composers Orchestra. The symphony is in three movements, based on the three parts"
"as god, the idea of dying as rebirth into the real world, the richness of the funerary ornamentation, all that gold lapis lazuli, the stylised poses in the paintings, the hieroglyphics, and in particular the love story of Akhnaton and his queen Nefertiti. Then by chance we came across the CD of a new opera by Philip Glass, called, of all things Akhnaton. This is not exactly top ten material – minimalist style, vastly long phrases of repeated notes, but in mood just what Chris was looking for. All we needed was to reduce a three-hour epic to 30 minutes."
"and of itself, but it turns into something not so great."" Duritz also stated he liked the song, specifying its good harmony and the enthusiasm of his voice, and he still listens to it occasionally. Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman) ""Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)"" is a song recorded by Counting Crows from the album ""DGC Rarities Vol. 1"". It was included on the band's best-of compilation, ""Films About Ghosts (The Best Of...)"". The title of the song was inspired by the Philip Glass opera ""Einstein on the Beach."" The song became the band's first number"
"1965, and the second time being to Penelope Margaret Mackworth-Praed, on July 12, 1977. Glass and Mackworth-Praed currently live in Carona, Switzerland. Both are currently professors at Franklin University Switzerland. He is sometimes credited as Paul E. Glass. Opera Paul Glass Paul Eugene Glass (born November 19, 1934) is a Swiss-American composer. Born in Los Angeles, California, Glass is the son of silent film actor and film executive Gaston Glass. He was educated at the University of Southern California (BM), and was taught by Ingolf Dahl, and Goffredo Petrassi in Rome (on a Fulbright Scholarship). Glass also attended Princeton University"
"a member of FORTE: their self-titled debut in 2013, and ""The Future Classics"" in 2016. The highlights of 2018 for Panikkar were joining the Salzburg Festival, performing in The Bassarids, and taking the leading role, as Gandhi, in Philip Glass’s opera “Satyagraha"". Panikkar has been honored by the George London Foundation with the 2007 Robert Jacobson Memorial Award and a 2009 George London Award; he was a First Prize winner of the 2010 Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, and second-place winner in the 2009 International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition. Sean Panikkar Sean Panikkar (born September 17, 1981) is an"