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Philip Glass : The Voyage: An Opera in Three Acts | 
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| Creators: Philip Glass, Dennis Russell Davies, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Karen Robertson, Lars Lettner, William Mason
Label: Orange Mountain Music
Category: Music
Buy New: $18.99
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 95868
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 801837001723
EAN: 0801837001723
ASIN: B000GFK8ME
Release Date: June 20, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Act II Scene 2 | | • | Act III Scene 1 | | • | Act III Scene 2 | | • | Act III Scene 3 | | • | Act I Scene 2 Conclusion | | • | Act I Scene 3 | | • | Act II Scene 1 |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Finally this has been recorded!! January 17, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I was at the World Premiere for this opera - my first time to be in the Met Opera House, my first time to be at a Philip Glass premiere, in the first month after I moved to New York City. No better welcome to New York City than the opportunity to see this at the Met AND to see a revival of Einstein on the Beach at BAM a month later.
I have awaited this recording for years - The Voyage is some of Glass' best music for orchestra and voice. It's powerful, lyrical, triumphant, tender, introspective, and gorgeous at various times. The libretto is a artistic and well-done exploration of what "exploration" is, and what drives so many human hearts to wonder "What's over there....?"
While all of Glass' music is worth having, on the scale of "what should the new fan buy first?", I'd put this in the first five of essential Glass compositions to know.
A long awaited Voyage January 6, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
When this opera premiered in 1992 I made it a point to tape the Met broadcast off the air. Then I waited for a CD. Finally after so many years they recorded it. Shame on the Met for not doing it earlier. So, although I can't really compare it with the original (Troyanas since passed away) it was a very welcome recording and, being a Glass fan, I have enjoyed it greatly.
 operatic tedium with occasional power and beauty... December 21, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Finally on CD almost 15 years after its Met Opera premiere, The Voyage contains plenty of overwrought operatic tedium, but also some choral passages of surprising power and beauty.
the Voyage. November 10, 2006
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
I had heard this years ago and did not know a CD was available. It is typical Glass. Either you like him or you don't. I do. The recording was quite good.
 A pastiche or a parody of Philip Glass's most tedious music October 30, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Philip Glass's opera is the most tedious one for the listener that he has written since his first, "Einstein on the Beach." It lacks the beauty of some of his opera "Satyagraha," though it has the bombast of "Akhenaten," and the eccentric mysticism of "Einstein on the Beach." All in all, it seems to be a pastiche or a parody of Philip Glass music, supplied with a text by Henry David Hwang (to Glass's outline) that is as meretricious as Marc Blitzstein's "Airborne" Symphony.
There is quite a bit of Glass music that I find beautiful and have a high tolerance for repetition, but "Voyage" considerably exceeds that tolerance. And with the articulation of the cast in the recording of "Voyage," they might as well be singing in Sanskrit (as in "Satyagraha").
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