Kepler (opera)

Philip Glass

Operas Einstein on the Beach (1976) Satyagraha (1980) The Photographer (1982) Akhnaten (1983) the CIVIL warS (1984) The Juniper Tree with Moran (1985) The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (1988) 1000 Airplanes on the Roof (1988) Hydrogen Jukebox (1990) The Voyage (1992) Monsters of Grace (1998) In the Penal Colony (2000) Galileo Galilei (2002) The Sound of a Voice (2003) Waiting for the Barbarians (2005) Appomattox (2007) Kepler (2009) The Perfect American (2013)

Kepler is an opera by Philip Glass set to a libretto in German and Latin by Martina Winkel. It premiered on 20 September 2009 at the Landestheater in the Austrian city of Linz with Dennis Russell Davies conducting the Bruckner Orchestra. Its libretto is based on the life and work of Johannes Kepler, the 16th and 17th century mathematician and astronomer. The work was commissioned by the Linz Landestheater and Linz09 (a programme celebrating the city's designation as a European Capital of Culture). The opera was performed in the USA for the first time in May 2012 at the Spoleto Festival. Conducted by John Kennedy, directed by Sam Helfrich and with an English translation by Saskia M. Wesnigk-Wood.^[1]

This is the third opera by Glass to be inspired by a physicist, after Einstein on the Beach (1976) and Galileo Galilei (2002).

Synopsis

"Fragments from the life and ideas of the scientist Johannes Kepler are contrasted with segments from the story of creation and poems by Andreas Gryphius, which portray Europe during the Thirty Years War."^[2]

Act 1

Prologue
I. Questions 1
II. Polyeder
III. Genesis
IV. Gryphius —Auf die Nacht (Upon the Night)
V. Physica Coelestis
VI. Gryphius 2
VII. Questions 2
VIII. Gryphius 3—Eyes. Optical Paradox

Act 2

I. On Astrology
II. Gryphius 4—To the Stars
III. Hypotheses
IV. Gryphius 5:—Tears of the Fatherland
V. Ephemerides
Epilogue

References

↑ http://www.spoletousa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Kepler.pdf
↑ Guide: Kepler DVD on Philipglass.com

Sources

Linz09 Kepler Premiere. Accessed 5 October 2009
ORF, Ö1, Kepler: Philip-Glass-Oper in Linz (in German). Accessed 5 October 2009
Nature 462, 724 (accessed 10 December 2009) doi:10.1038/462724a; Published online 9 December 2009
Review: Kepler: the new Philip Glass opera
Rosenblum, Joshua，“Recordings: Glass: Kepler”, Opera News 75. 12 (Jun 2011): 63.

Philip Glass

Compositions	Music in Twelve Parts Glassworks String Quartet No. 2 The Light Passages Itaipu Songs from Liquid Days Aguas da Amazonia

Operas	Einstein on the Beach Satyagraha The Photographer Akhnaten The Civil Wars The Juniper Tree The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 1000 Airplanes on the Roof Hydrogen Jukebox The Voyage Monsters of Grace White Raven In the Penal Colony Galileo Galilei The Sound of a Voice Waiting for the Barbarians Appomattox Kepler The Perfect American

Symphonies	Symphony No. 1 (Low) Symphony No. 2 Symphony No. 3 Symphony No. 4 (Heroes) Symphony No. 5 (Choral) Symphony No. 6 (Plutonian Ode) Symphony No. 7 (A Toltec Symphony) Symphony No. 8 Symphony No. 9 Symphony No. 10

Concertos	Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tirol) Piano Concerto No. 2 (After Lewis and Clark) Harpsichord Concerto Violin Concerto (withdrawn) Violin Concerto No. 1 Violin Concerto No. 2 (American Four Seasons) Cello Concerto No. 1 Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra

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