Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook “Satyagraha,” one of the Metropolitan Opera’s greatest stagings of the 21st century, has been released on DVD and CD. By Seth Colter ...

Easily the most important opera of the last half century, “Einstein on the Beach,” at least at first, meant far more to those who witnessed it than to the art form itself, which couldn’t have cared ...

Acrobats perform under the big top set up on the Malmo Opera stage for "Circus Days and Nights." (Mats Backer) A drum beats. An accordion joins in, like the music of a clown. A trombone further adds a ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The mesmerizing score by Philip Glass is filled with driving rhythms, ...

Philip Glass began his operatic career in the 1970s and ’80s with a trilogy focused on great visionaries of history: “Einstein on the Beach”; “Satyagraha,” a meditation on Gandhi’s early activism; and ...

Verdi and Glass both re-imagined an ancient Egypt suited to the composers’ own times. But whereas Verdi relies on the great 19th century Italian opera themes of forbidden love and the like to make the ...

Live vocalists and a chamber orchestra perform the composer’s libretto and score to a screening of the surreal masterpiece at Ridglea Theater.

New York City Opera has commissioned composer Philip Glass (“Koyaanisqatsi,” “The Hours”) to pen an opera about Walt Disney, to be staged in collaboration with Brit legit troupe Improbable. Opera, ...

The five dance selections that are part of the Dance Reflections festival take varied approaches to piano exercises written by Philip Glass. By Brian Seibert Begun to improve his own technique, piano ...

The publication this year of the Forward 50 is happening a little differently. We are rolling out videos of the Top 5, the American Jews who we think top our list of those who have impacted the news ...