Philip Glass | News Music & Opera https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/tag/philip-glass-en Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:06:15 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Opéra de Nice breaks the Glass once again! https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/the-opera-de-nice-breaks-the-glass-once-again Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:06:15 +0000 https://actualites.music-opera.com/?p=16803 Bertrand Rossi, the brilliant and astute director of the Opéra de Nice, made a bold statement at the start of his tenure on the French Riviera by staging a major work, rarely seen in France. In 2021, Philip Glass’s Akhnaten has been performed on the French Riviera, winning both critical and public acclaim. The American […]

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]]> Bertrand Rossi, the brilliant and astute director of the Opéra de Nice, made a bold statement at the start of his tenure on the French Riviera by staging a major work, rarely seen in France.

In 2021, Philip Glass’s Akhnaten has been performed on the French Riviera, winning both critical and public acclaim. The American composer Philip Glass, one of the leading figures of minimalist music, wrote a trilogy of operas on “men who changed the world in which they lived through the power of their ideas.”

By bringing together emerging artists such as Robert Wilson and Lucinda Childs, the first part, Einstein on the Beach (composed in 1976), caused a sensation and marked its era. After Akhnaten, Bertrand Rossi has outpaced the Paris Opera by programming Satyagraha for the very first time in France since its creation!

While the “Grande Boutique” is preparing a production staged by Bobbi Jene Smith for April 2026, Nice once again calls on the legendary Lucinda Childs, who will take on both direction and choreography. On October 3, 5, and 7, 2025, Léo Warynski will conduct the chorus and orchestra of the Opéra de Nice, just as he did in 2021, with a cast featuring tenor Sahy Ratia as Gandhi and Julie Robard-Gendre, also present in 2021.

An ode to peace and humanity, Satyagraha draws inspiration from Gandhi’s journey and his concept of non-violent resistance, while evoking great figures such as the writer Leo Tolstoy, the poet Rabindranath Tagore, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. The entire Opéra de Nice company will then head to the Philharmonie de Paris for a concert version of Akhnaten, which is already sold out! Philip Glass and the Opéra de Nice are riding wave after wave of success!

 

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Philip Glass’ Satyagraha production at Opéra de Nice – c – Opéra de Nice

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]]> Berlin under the Egyptian Sun of an American https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/berlin-under-the-egyptian-sun-of-an-american Tue, 07 Jan 2025 08:30:39 +0000 https://actualites.music-opera.com/?p=15913 The Komische Oper Berlin is currently undergoing renovations (scheduled to last six years!), but this hasn’t stopped the company from performing in other venues and presenting new productions. The Schiller Theater, which is hosting the Komische Oper as it once did for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, will stage Akhnaten by Philip Glass from March […]

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]]> The Komische Oper Berlin is currently undergoing renovations (scheduled to last six years!), but this hasn’t stopped the company from performing in other venues and presenting new productions.

The Schiller Theater, which is hosting the Komische Oper as it once did for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, will stage Akhnaten by Philip Glass from March 15 to April 20, 2025.

This minimalist masterpiece, directed by Barrier Kosky the resident director of the Berlin institution), is the final installment of the trilogy dedicated to world-changing figures. After Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha, Akhnaten features the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten as its central figure.

 

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Barrie Kosky & the Schiller Theater – c – Jan Windszus Photography, Gunnar Geller

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]]> The big event will indeed take place in Nice ! https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/the-big-event-will-indeed-take-place-in-nice Tue, 09 Nov 2021 09:00:11 +0000 https://actualites.music-opera.com/?p=10122 Scheduled to open the season in 2020, Philip Glass’ Akhnaten, the masterpiece of 20th century opera, will be presented on the stage of the Opéra de Nice on 12, 14 and 16 November 2021, in the presence of the public. Bertrand Rossi, the new director of the Opéra de Nice, will inaugurate his mandate one […]

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]]> Scheduled to open the season in 2020, Philip Glass’ Akhnaten, the masterpiece of 20th century opera, will be presented on the stage of the Opéra de Nice on 12, 14 and 16 November 2021, in the presence of the public. Bertrand Rossi, the new director of the Opéra de Nice, will inaugurate his mandate one year later with this sublime production by Lucinda Childs, which has already been seen online. Dancers, singers, musicians, all the forces of the Opéra de Nice are called upon and surround a magnificent cast: Fabrice Di Falco and Julie Robard-Gendre in the roles of Akhnaten and Nefertiti as well as Patrizia Ciofi as Queen Tye and Léo Warynski as conductor. Philip Glass’ Akhnaten, with its hypnotic rhythms, has already won over audiences around the world and is being performed for the very first time in France.

 

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Photograph : c Dominique Jaussein

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