The Voyage is an opera in three acts (plus a prologue and an epilogue) by the American composer Philip Glass (born 1937). The libretto was written by David Henry Hwang.
It was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, New York and first performed there on October 12th, 1992 (that exact date being the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus discovering the Americas). The first British Premiere was in Leeds, England, performed by The City Of Leeds ...
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The Voyage is an opera in three acts (plus a prologue and an epilogue) by the American composer Philip Glass (born 1937). The libretto was written by David Henry Hwang.
It was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, New York and first performed there on October 12th, 1992 (that exact date being the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus discovering the Americas). The first British Premiere was in Leeds, England, performed by The City Of Leeds Youth Opera, with Johnathon Cliff and Mike Williamson as the directors
Glass did not want to create a biographical opera about Columbus, especially in a year when there were countless films, documentaries and other events doing the same job. Instead he opted to make his opera a more general study of exploration - of the oceans, of space and time and of the mind. Columbus remains a central character though, appearing in the second act and the epilogue.
A brief synopsis follows:
Prologue: We see a scientist in a wheelchair (reminding us of...
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