A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera Trailer
Achim Freyer is a German stage director, set designer and painter. A protégé of Bertolt Brecht, Freyer has become one of the world’s leading opera directors, working throughout Europe and, since 2002, in the United States, principally with the Los Angeles Opera. Since 1992, Freyer has developed a number of productions featuring his own troupe of performers, known as the Freyer Ensemble.
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29 April 2008
A live recording of the premier of Korean composer Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland opera at National Theater Munich in June 2007.
08 October 1986
This documentary by Michael Blackwood looks at the development and production of Glass' opera Akhnaten.
01 January 1983
This luminous, visionary opera tells the story of how Mahatma Gandhi developed the philosophy of satyagraha, nonviolent active resistance, as a political revolutionary tool to fight oppression, connecting his lifework to three historical figures who advanced his philosophy: the celebrated Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, the great Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore and the heroic American civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
01 January 1996
Don Giovanni is a dramatic opera which tells the story of the legendary libertine and seducer of the same name.
11 November 1966
Duke Heinrich von Libnitz wins a knightly drink competition in 1472. However, the last barrel he drinks costs him his entire estate.
09 March 2015
The Rhine maidens lure and mock the dwarf Alberich. He curses love and steals the Rhinegold.
28 June 1970
The lion, wolf and fox use modern technologies for producing their food instead of traditional hunting methods.
