Philip Glass

[VodkaDilc]

Anyone going to try ENO's Akhnaten? I saw a much earlier ENO production - but I thought I might try this revival of the 2016 production. Perhaps I'm a masochist. I find some of Glass's music beautiful, but some of it very drawn out, and perhaps pointless. I wasn't too keen on Satyagraha and have yet to see/hear a production of Einstein on the Beach.

It's wonderful. Satyagraha was a bit disappointing, but Akhnaten is absolutely stunning in every way. It's very rare for me to go to the same production twice, but this is an exception. Anyone who enjoys a spectacular night at the theatre should go (if there are any tickets left.)

[Boilk]

Maybe he will be remembered like Telemann (to Steve Reich's Bach?) - good, but you can have too much of a good thing.

Hmmm ... Steve Reich as a modern-day Bach. For me that's an insult to JSB (and GPT).

[Beresford]

Hmmm ... Steve Reich as a modern-day Bach. For me that's an insult to JSB (and GPT).

To me also, if I had been comparing Reich and JSB.
I was trying to say that the relative achievement of GBT and JSB was perhaps similar to the relative achievement of Glass and Reich, Glass being seen as more profuse, and Reich as more weighty.
But I managed to get my comparisons a bit muddled......

[Simon B]

It's wonderful. Satyagraha was a bit disappointing, but Akhnaten is absolutely stunning in every way. It's very rare for me to go to the same production twice, but this is an exception. Anyone who enjoys a spectacular night at the theatre should go (if there are any tickets left.)

This. The production is visually breathtaking. As long as the music isn't not-your-thing to the point of being intolerable, it's almost worth going for the visual aspect alone. Ticket availability is pretty sparse for this run now though...