Satyagraha (which some say is part of a trilogy with Akhnaten and Einstein on the Beach) was designed for the Met by Phelim McDermott, who has returned with Akhnaten. We were given nothing much, back then, to like, and Glass, in three tries, did not have a winner at the Met until Satyagraha in 2008. Many writers have been saying this fall, apropos of the sellout hit that Akhnaten has proven to be at its Metropolitan Opera debut, that it’s a “disgrace” the opera has not appeared in New York in 35 years, but this is, to say the least of it, unfair. The score, like most Glass scores, was inactive. Company maestro Christopher Keene and an orchestra accustomed to traditional opera didn’t have a handle on the style of Philip Glass, and the performers, led by countertenor Christopher Robson, made nothing interesting or involving of the score. The NYCO presentation was static and tedious. New York was introduced to Philip Glass’s opera, Akhnaten, by the New York City Opera back in 1984, shortly after the work’s premiere in Houston.
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera New York Metropolitan Opera, Season 2019-2020
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