Live broadcast with English and Hungarian subtitle. Philip Glass studied under Nadia Boulanger in Paris for two years, where he earned a little money scoring Ravi Shankar's Indian music according to the “Western” convention. On his return to New York, he worked the Eastern techniques he had learned into his own music. By the ‘70s, he had produced a host of important and innovative works, including the operatic milestone Einstein, which he co-wrote with Robert Wilson in 1976. His Book of Longing, composed in 2007, attracted full houses on consecutive nights in the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall in 2008. The title of the opera, premiered in the Netherlands in 1980, refers to Gandhi's concept of non-violent resistance to injustice, Satyagraha, and the text, from the Bhagavad Gita, is sung in the original Sanskrit. Translation is usually provided to the audience in the form of supertitles. In April 2007, the English National Opera and the Metropolitan Opera agreed to stage a joint production of the opera, which was performed before a New York audience from April 2008. The Washington Post described the opera as ”a profound and beautiful work of theatre,” referring in particular to Julian Crouch's sets, Kevin Pollard's costumes and Paule Constable's lighting design, as well as the video projections of Leo Warner and Mark Grimmer. Presented by: Palace of Arts, Sponsor: Este Bank

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