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Philip Glass

Umqambi waseMelika, omele ukunyakaza kwe-avant-garde, okuthiwa. "i-minimalism". Wathonywa kakhulu nawumculo wamaNdiya. Inqwaba yama-opera akhe adume kakhulu. Ngakho-ke, i-opera ethi Einstein Ogwini (1976) ingenye yezingoma ezimbalwa zaseMelika ezidlalwa eMetropolitan Opera.

Phakathi kwabanye: "Satyagraha" (1980, Rotterdam, mayelana nempilo M. Gandhi), "Akhenaton" (1984, Stuttgart, libretto by umbhali), premiere okuyinto yaba umcimbi omkhulu ekuphileni zomculo 80s. (maphakathi nesakhiwo kukhona isithombe sikaFaro Akhenaten, owenqaba isithembu egameni lothando lukaNefertiti futhi wakha idolobha ngokuhlonipha unkulunkulu wakhe omusha u-Aten), Uhambo (1992, Metropolitan Opera).

E. Tsodokov, 1999