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A lecture-discussion by Richard Guérin, label manager for Philip Glass’s record label Orange Mountain Music, in anticipation of the Metropolitan Opera’s Akhnaten, which will be broadcast on HD.

Largely viewed to be the 20th century’s greatest operatic revolutionary, through his works, including his “Portrait Trilogy” of Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha, and Akhnaten––operas about individuals who changed the world through the power of ideas––Guérin will discuss Glass’s music in particular and the musical languages of Wagner and Glass. The presentation will show examples of their works and present parallels and differences in creating new forms of musical theater, and endeavor to bring a larger biographical context to the work of Philip Glass and how it informs his theater works.