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Title Satyagraha / a ZDF-RM Arts production in association with Channel Four Television, U.K. ; RM Associates.

Publication Info. Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, [2001]
[©2001]

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Balcony  AV DVD 792.542 S254S    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby digital stereo.
Performer Leo Goeke (Gandhi I) ; Ralf Harster (Gandhi II) ; Helmut Danninger (Gandhi III) ; Inga Nielsen (Schlesen) ; Georg Greiwe (Tolstoy, Tagore) ; Elke Estlinbaum (Kasturbai) ; Wolfgang Probst (Kallenbach I) ; Kimmo Lappalainen (Kallenbach II) ; Daniel Bonilla (Parsi Rustomji) ; Melinda Liebermann (Naidoo) ; Helga Merkl-Freivogel (Mrs. Alexander) ; Karl-Friedrich Dürr (Krishna) ; Helmut Holzapfel (Arjuna) ; supporting artists ; Dennis Russell Davis, conductor.
Credits Director, Hugo Käch ; scenario, producer, Achim Freyer ; music, Philip Glass ; libretto by Philip Glass and Constance De Jong.
Note Based on an original scenario by Philip Glass and Constance De Jong.
Event Recorded live at the Württembergisches Staatstheater Stuttgart, Grosses Haus.
Note Originally produced for television in 1983 by ZDF/RM Arts.
Summary This visionary opera tells the story of how Mahatma Gandhi developed the philosophy of satyagraha, nonviolent active resistance, as a political revolutionary tool to fight oppression, connecting his lifework to three historical figures who advanced his philosophy: the celebrated Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, the great Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore and the American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
Contents Act 1. Tolstoy -- Act 2. Tagore -- Act 3. Martin Luther King.
Language In Sanskrit with English subtitles.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 -- Drama.
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 -- Drama.
Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941 -- Drama.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Drama.
Operas -- Television adaptations.
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948. (OCoLC)fst00033822
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. (OCoLC)fst00040023
Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941. (OCoLC)fst00052355
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. (OCoLC)fst00037938
Operas. (OCoLC)fst01046191
Genre/Form Filmed operas.
Televised operas.
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
Filmed operas. (OCoLC)fst01726270
Televised operas. (OCoLC)fst01726269
Television adaptations. (OCoLC)fst01710478
Added Author Käch, Hugo. Director.
Freyer, Achim, 1934- Scenarist. Producer.
DeJong, Constance. Librettist.
Goeke, Leo. Performer.
Harster, Ralf. Performer.
Danninger, Helmut. Performer.
Nielsen, Inga, 1946-2008. Performer.
Greiwe, Georg. Performer.
Estlinbaum, Elke. Performer.
Probst, Wolfgang. Performer.
Lappalainen, Kimmo. Performer.
Bonilla, Daniel. Performer.
Liebermann, Melinda. Performer.
Merkl-Freivogel, Helga. Performer.
Dürr, Karl-Friedrich, 1949- Performer.
Holzapfel, Helmut. Performer.
Davies, Dennis Russell. Conductor.
Glass, Philip. Satyagraha.
Staatsoper Stuttgart.
Reiner Moritz Associates.
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.
Channel Four (Great Britain)
RM Arts (Firm)
Image Entertainment (Firm)
Standard No. 014381924626
Music No. ID9246RADVD Image Entertainment
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