Philip Glass’s music can do many things: it can mesmerise and evolve, bully you into submission and seduce with its quietly shifting shapes, and it has a particularly nice line in ominous tension, as ...

Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" is one of his darkest stories. A visitor to a colonial island is invited to witness an execution through the most gruesome of methods. A man will be gagged and strapped ...

At one level, Philip Glass and Kafka make good companions. Glass writes what he calls “music with repetitive structures”; his deliberate avoidance of harmonic development makes a viable equivalent to ...

Love him or loathe him '“ and there are plenty with strong opinions on both sides '“ US minimalist Philip Glass has done more than most contemporary composers to bring new audiences to serious music.

This week an opera based on one of Kafka’s darkest stories comes to London, with music by Philip Glass. It’s an unlikely conjunction of talents. On the one hand, the perpetually haunted Jewish ...

A NEW opera visits Manchester on Wednesday, October 22, in its first performance outside London - The Trial, written by Philip Glass, based on Kafka’s novella of the same name. It’s performed by Music ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Christopher Hillier and Simon Lobelson in Opera Australia's 2018 production of Metamorphosis at The Opera Centre Scenery Workshop.Credit ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. In retrospect, Franz Kafka, author, and György Kurtág, composer, might have been made for each other.

There are two classic novels about the evils of a totalitarian state: George Orwell's 1984 and Franz Kafka's The Trial. Of these, Kafka's work, despite having been written some 35 years before ...

This week an opera based on one of Kafka’s darkest stories comes to London, with music by Philip Glass. It’s an unlikely conjunction of talents. On the one hand, the perpetually haunted Jewish ...