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2021-05-31 10:53:23
Live-streamed from Malmö Opera, SwedenGlass’s new circus-set music-theatre work, based on the writings of poet Robert Lax, is sensationally staged but the music remains earthbound Philip Glass calls his latest music-theatre work – his 30th by my reckoning – a “circus opera”. Staged as a collaboration between Malmö Opera and Cirkus Cirkör, Circus Days and Nights is based on the life and work of the American poet Robert Lax (1915-2000), who spent the last four decades of his life in Greece, but who in the late 1940s had worked as a clown and juggler in the Cristiani family’s circus. That experience provided the material for many of Lax’s poems – he saw the circus as a metaphor for God’s creation – and the opera takes its title from his final collection, published in the year of his death. But the libretto, by
2021-05-25 06:41:06
Circus Days and Nights: Philip Glass' opera based on Robert Lax's circus poems to premiere in Malmö
Philip Glass: Circus Days And Nights(Image Peter Aberg / Photo Karo) American poet Robert Lax (1915-2000) was fascinated by the circus and during the 1940s worked in circuses in Canada as a clown and expert juggler. It was travelling with the Cristiani Brothers circus in 1949 that enabled him to generate material for his long poems The Circus of the Sun and Mogador's Book. [There is some film footage of Cristiani Brothers' circus on the Robert Lax website]. The Circus of the Sun is a cycle of 31 short poems which tells a day in the life of a travelling circus, aligning events with the canonical hours. Composer Philip Glass had long been fascinated by Lax's circus poetry and for the last ten years has had the rights to Lax's circus poem. But it is only now that Glass has ventured into putting his vision of Lax's poetic world into […]
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