One of the most visually spectacular opera stagings of recent decades, English National Opera’s London premiere production of Philip Glass’s Satyagraha broke all Company box-office records for contemporary opera when it was first seen in 2007.

Instilled with breath-taking theatrical flair by Improbable’s award-winning director-designer partnership of Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch, Satyagraha went on to enjoy equal success at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.

A mesmerisingly hypnotic musical meditation upon Mahatma Gandhi’s early years in South Africa and his spiritual progress towards the concept of non-violent protest, Glass’s operatic masterpiece Satyagraha now returns to the London Coliseum.

Alan Oke repeats his compelling central performance as the young political activist taking the first tentative steps in his lifelong search for truth.

When Satyagraha was first staged in 2007, The Times described it as “A masterwork of theatrical intensity and integrity,” while The Guardian said “Phelim McDermott’s staging is a thing of wonder.”

Satyagraha is performed in Sanskrit with English surtitles.

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