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Memorable musical meditation on Gandhi
Inventive imagery matches and compliments Philip Glass’s minimalist, hypnotic and deeply moving score, writes JAMES MATHER
Satyagraha ensemble
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Satyagraha
ENO London Coliseum
THE English National Opera opens its season with a revival of Philip Glass’s Satyagraha. A wise choice from ENO’s artistic director Anillese Miskimmon.
The opera is essentially a meditation on a theme, that of Gandhi’s time in South Africa and chiefly, the concept of Satyagraha; a Sanskrit term that loosely translates as “life force,” the idea that love, as opposed to violence, is the best way of combatting oppression.
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