Minimalist Opera Movies

  • 1985
    Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

    Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

    Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

    101985HD

    The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents...

    Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera
  • 2023
    John Adams: Nixon in China

    John Adams: Nixon in China

    John Adams: Nixon in China

    42023HD

    In February 1972, the American president Richard Nixon went to China to meet Mao Zedong. In the context of the war in Vietnam and the cold war, this...

    John Adams: Nixon in China
  • 1983
    Philip Glass: Satyagraha

    Philip Glass: Satyagraha

    Philip Glass: Satyagraha

    101983HD

    This luminous, visionary opera tells the story of how Mahatma Gandhi developed the philosophy of satyagraha, nonviolent active resistance, as a...

    Philip Glass: Satyagraha
  • 2008
    Adams: Doctor Atomic

    Adams: Doctor Atomic

    Adams: Doctor Atomic

    02008HD

    John Adams’s mesmerizing score, in the powerful production of Penny Woolcock, tells the story of one of the pivotal moments in human...

    Adams: Doctor Atomic
  • 2019
    John Adams: Nixon in China

    John Adams: Nixon in China

    John Adams: Nixon in China

    102019HD

    Besides the landing on the moon by the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, Richard Nixon’s meeting with China’s leader Mao Zedong in February 1972...

    John Adams: Nixon in China
  • 2020
    Philip Glass: Akhnaten

    Philip Glass: Akhnaten

    Philip Glass: Akhnaten

    02020HD

    Akhnaten is set in Ancient Egypt, and based on the accession to the throne of the pharaoh Amenhotep IV – thought to have been around 1351BC...

    Philip Glass: Akhnaten