Glass: Kepler – review

Landestheater & Bruckner O Linz/Davies (Orange Mountain Music, two CDs)In 2009, Linz was one of the European capitals of culture, and among the specially commissioned events were the premieres of two significant music-theatre works. One was Michel van der Aa's The Book of Disquiet, based on Fernando Pessoa's novel; the other was Philip Glass's latest opera, built around the ideas of the 17th-century mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, who spent 15 years of his life teaching in Linz. T...

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