10 days to the Satyagraha premiere!

Philip Glass’s Satyagraha will have its Met premiere on April 11. Written in 1979 and first performed in Rotterdam the following year, the opera deals with Gandhi’s years in South Africa, where he developed his philosophy of non-violence, which he later brought to his native India in its struggle for independence from the British Empire. The Met’s new production by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch was first seen at English National Opera in London in 2007, where it was hailed as “a thing of wonder” by The Guardian, and “a masterwork of theatrical intensity and integrity” by The Times. For Satyagraha’s Met premiere, tenor Richard Croft takes on the role of Gandhi and Dante Anzolini conducts.

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