Kepler
Music by Philip Glass · at Linz State Theatre
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 USA; it was conducted by John Kennedy and directed by Sam Helfrich, featuring an English translation by Saskia M. Wesnigk-Wood. This is the third opera by Glass to be inspired by a physicist, after Einstein on the Beach (1976) and Galileo Galilei (2002).
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About the Composer
Philip Glass is the composer of record for this opera.
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Other Operas by Philip Glass
- Einstein on the Beach (1976)
- Akhnaten (1983)
- 1000 Airplanes on the Roof (1988)
- Hydrogen Jukebox (1990)
- La Belle et la Bête (1994)
- In the Penal Colony (2000)
- Galileo Galilei (2002)
- Appomattox (2007)