Organization

Conductor

Jonathan Stockhammer

Stage director

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Choreographer

Set designer

Henrik Ahr

Costume designer

Jan-Jan van Essche

Lighting designer

Roland Edrich

Chorus master

Jef Smits

Singer

Tenor

Stefan Cifolelli

MK Ghandi

Soprano

Cathrin Lange

Miss Schlessen

Mezzo-soprano

Maren Favela

Kasturba

Bass

Jorge Eleazar Álvarez

Mr. Kallenbach

Justin Hopkins

Parsi Rustomji

Krishna

Sophia Burgos

Mrs. Naidoo

Daniel Arnaldos

Prince Arjuna

Raphaële Green

Mrs. Alexander

Dramaturge

Pavel B Jiracek

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Satyagraha

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Satyagraha Glass

De portretopera Satyagraha van Philip Glass stond in een regie van Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui o.a. in Basel, Berlijn en in 2018 nog in Opera Gent voor uitverkochte...

The American composer Philip Glass created with Satyagraha – the power of truth – a portrait opera about Mahatma Gandhi. The focus is on his early years in South Africa, where he developed his ideas about non-violent civil disobedience. Biographical episodes are connected to a score of hypnotic minimal music with associative texts from the Hindu Bhagavad Gîtâ, in which crucial questions about spirituality and human action are asked. Glass' meditative masterpiece ends with the finding that the power of truth will be generated again and again as long as we want to hear our own deeply human outcry against injustice. Director and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui places onstage, alongside the singers who depict the historical characters, a group of dancers from our ballet who, through his fluid movement language, intensely embody the idea of the eternal fight against injustice. This special production was highly acclaimed during an initial series of performances in 2018 in Ghent and can now be seen in Antwerp for the first time.

Satyagraha by Glass, From (2023/2023), Directed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui,, Conductor Jonathan Stockhammer, Opera Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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