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A persistent meditative state: Glass' Satyagraha at English National Opera

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“Glass’ music is supremely effective at bringing you into a meditative, trance-like state”
Reviewed at The London Coliseum, London on 7 February 2018
Glass, Satyagraha
Karen Kamensek, Conductor
Phelim McDermott, Director
Julian Crouch, Set Designer
Kevin Pollard, Costume Designer
Toby Spence, Gandhi
Charlotte Beament, Miss Schlesen
Anna-Clare Monk, Mrs Naidoo
Stephanie Marshall, Kasturbai
Nicholas Folwell, Mr. Kallenbach
Brindley Sherratt, Parsi Rustomji
English National Opera Chorus
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