Glass: In the Penal Colony (complete opera)
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PHILIP GLASS
Glass: In the Penal Colony (complete opera)
Michael Bennett, Omar Ebrahim / Music Theatre Wales
[ Orange Mountain Music / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 1 November 2012
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"Glass homes in with scary effectiveness on the officer's description of the machine...Omar Ebrahim's officer moves from robotic vibrato to loving devotion as Michael Bennett's lighter timbre darkens, and the quintet maintains momentum." (BBC Music)
"Bennett is especially impressive in the role of the visitor - the innocent bystander-turned-accomplice. Playing is not without its blemishes (the untidy conclusion to scene 9, for example) but in an opera which deals in stark detail with some of humanity's darkest blemishes, this becomes strangely appropriate."
(Gramophone)
"Glass homes in with scary effectiveness on the officer's description of the machine...Omar Ebrahim's officer moves from robotic vibrato to loving devotion as Michael Bennett's lighter timbre darkens, and the quintet maintains momentum." (BBC Music)
"the repetitions of Philip Glass's opera make a perfect reflection of Kafka's verbal ones. Omar Ebrahim projects the fervour of a true believer as the Officer, Michael Bennett is the appalled Visitor."
(The Independent)
