Satyagraha returns to Brooklyn Academy of Music.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
Once every few seasons, an opera production emerges that enables this writer to see the art form in an entirely new light. This year, that production is Satyagraha by Philip Glass, which returned to the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music last week. (BAM NextWave was the sight of the first New York performances of this opera in 1981.) This staging brings Philip Glass' three act meditation on the early years of Mahatma Gandhi to a literal circus, combining singing, dance, aerialism and other feats to make this cool, cerebral opera into a warm and intimate experience.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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| A wilderness of ramps: Leif Arun-Solen is Gandhi in Satyagraha. Photo by Stephanie Berger for BAM. |
