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Philip glass biography opera london
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(1937- ) US avant-garde classical composer; Glass has been a prolific, influential and varied maker of music since the 1960s, working in minimalist and popular idioms, utilizing both electronic and more conventional orchestral media.
His most distinctive works share a focus on multiply-repeated rhythmic and melodic loops, to often incantatory though always precise and solid effect. The climax of his plotless but widely noted first opera, Einstein on the Beach (first performed Avignon Festival, Avignon, France, 25 July 1976), takes place on board a Spaceship, as does a significant part of the action of the much later The Voyage (first performed Metropolitan Opera, New York, 12 October 1992), also known as Christopher Columbus; both of these works are perhaps most impressive as audio events.
Several of his other operas go beyond the static use of sf-related venues, including his version of Edgar Allan