Minimalist Opera Movies
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Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera
Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of OperaMOVIE
The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents th...
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John Adams: Nixon in China
John Adams: Nixon in ChinaMOVIE
In February 1972, the American president Richard Nixon went to China to meet Mao Zedong. In the context of the war in Vietnam and the cold war, this e...
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Adams: Doctor Atomic
Adams: Doctor AtomicMOVIE
John Adams’s mesmerizing score, in the powerful production of Penny Woolcock, tells the story of one of the pivotal moments in human history—the creat...
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John Adams: Nixon in China
John Adams: Nixon in ChinaMOVIE
Besides the landing on the moon by the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, Richard Nixon’s meeting with China’s leader Mao Zedong in February 1972 then represe...
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Philip Glass: Satyagraha
Philip Glass: SatyagrahaMOVIE
This luminous, visionary opera tells the story of how Mahatma Gandhi developed the philosophy of satyagraha, nonviolent active resistance, as a politi...
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Philip Glass: Akhnaten
Philip Glass: AkhnatenMOVIE
Akhnaten is set in Ancient Egypt, and based on the accession to the throne of the pharaoh Amenhotep IV – thought to have been around 1351BC – on his r...