Dennis Russell Davies Trailers
Glass: The Perfect American TrailerThe Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny TrailerA Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera Trailer
Glass: The Perfect American TrailerThe Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny TrailerA Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera Trailer
Total trailers found: 6
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 2011
Live performance of Philip Glass's opera Kepler (2009) by the Landestheater Linz Upper Austrian State Theater in 2011, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.
29 October 2013
The last days of the American icon Walt Disney form a powerful and poignant subject for Philip Glass's latest opera, which was filmed at its first performances in Madrid in January 2013.
01 January 1998
Depicts the consumerism of the mythical city of Mahagonny, conveying all its ripe decadence. A Hollywood Babylon full of pyramidal towers, carved elephants, commodified sex and licensed gluttony.