This opera's first act begins with "The Kuru Field of Justice" and introduces Leo Tolstoy as a symbol, while Tagore and Martin Luther King respectively appear in the two remaining acts.
Its closing scene is set to the tune of an ascending Phyrgian scale repeated nearly 30 times, and comprises the third part of the Newcastle March, which takes up all of Act III. This opera's first act begins with "The Kuru Field of Justice" and introduces Leo Tolstoy as a symbol, while Tagore and Martin Luther King respectively appear in the two remaining acts. Featuring a libretto in Sanskrit and based on the Bhagavad Gita, this is, FTP, what Philip Glass opera about Mohandas Gandhi, which joins Einstein on the Beach and Akhnaten in his trilogy of portrait operas?
Its closing scene is set to the tune of an ascending Phyrgian scale repeated nearly 30 times, and comprises the third part of the Newcastle March, which takes up all of Act III.
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