Satyagraha é uma ópera de Philip Glass com libretto do autor e de Constance de Jong que retrata episódios da vida de Gandhi enquanto jovem, quando viveu na África do Sul.
A encenação de Phelim McDermoff foi vistosa.
O som da transmissão esteve excessivamente alto e as vozes dos cantores pareciam distorcidas.
A música é de uma monotonia e repetitividade entediantes e exasperantes.
Ser cantado em sânscrito e quase sem tradução (apesar de ter sido dada a explicação que era deliberado, para se ouvir e não para ler) foi outro aspecto negativo para mim.
O comentário da Gi é, também, elucidativo.
Enfim, uma tarde penosa e uma ópera que não tenciono rever.
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SARYAGRAHA - Met Live in HD, Gulbenkian Foundation, November 2011
Satyagraha is an opera by Philip Glass with libretto by the author and Constance de Jong depicting episodes from the life of Gandhi as a young man when he lived in South Africa
The staging, by Phelim McDermoff, was interesting.
The sound was too loud and the voices of the singers seemed distorted.
For me, the music is a tedious monotony and repetitiveness.
Be sung in Sanskrit and almost without translation (despite having been given the explanation that it was deliberate, to be listen and not to be read) was another negative aspect for me.
Satyagraha is an opera by Philip Glass with libretto by the author and Constance de Jong depicting episodes from the life of Gandhi as a young man when he lived in South Africa
The staging, by Phelim McDermoff, was interesting.
The sound was too loud and the voices of the singers seemed distorted.
For me, the music is a tedious monotony and repetitiveness.
Be sung in Sanskrit and almost without translation (despite having been given the explanation that it was deliberate, to be listen and not to be read) was another negative aspect for me.
Gi's comment is also instructive.
A painful afternoon and an opera that I do not intend to see again.
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