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Satyagraha (6x4)


: 19, 2011

A 1979 opera by American composer Philip Glass, the second in his series of operas about personalities who changed the world (the other two are Akhnaten and Einstein on the Beach). Loosely based on the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi and the text, from the Bhagavad Gita, is sung in the original Sanskrit. The title refers to Gandhi's concept of non-violent resistance to injustice.

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