“Kafka’s Trial” (Proces Kafka) was a co-commissioned, one-act opera and prelude written by Danish composer Poul Ruders and British actor and librettist Paul Bentley to celebrate Copenhagen Opera House ...
Philip Glass’s music can do many things: it can mesmerise and evolve, bully you into submission and seduce with its quietly shifting shapes, and it has a particularly nice line in ominous tension, as ...
LONDON, Oct 14 — American minimalist composer Philip Glass’s new opera The Trial, based on the Franz Kafka novel, begins with a waltz that is really the start of a “dance of death” for the main ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Christopher Hillier and Simon Lobelson in Opera Australia's 2018 production of Metamorphosis at The Opera Centre Scenery Workshop.Credit ...
Image: Courtesy Cory Weaver/Portland Opera. If Kafka saw books as axes for the frozen seas within us, one wonders how he saw operas, tool-wise. Sledgehammers, maybe? Kafka’s prickly, disorienting ...
At one level, Philip Glass and Kafka make good companions. Glass writes what he calls “music with repetitive structures”; his deliberate avoidance of harmonic development makes a viable equivalent to ...
This week an opera based on one of Kafka’s darkest stories comes to London, with music by Philip Glass. It’s an unlikely conjunction of talents. On the one hand, the perpetually haunted Jewish ...
The killing apparatus as portrayed by Cal Rep ensemble members. Photo by Keith Ian Polakoff Ensemble members from Cal Rep at CSULB serve time in Long Beach Opera’s “In the Penal Colony.” Photo by ...
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