So here’s a fine howdy-do for Galileo Galilei: Exactly one day—one flipping day—after the great man’s 450th birthday, on Feb. 15, 2014, a study by the National Science Foundation (NSF) revealed that ...
Few figures shine as brightly as Galileo Galilei, an Italian philosopher whose contributions to astronomy revolutionized the understanding of the stars. "Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) has always played ...
Galileo Galilei, Goodman Theatre. This new music-theater work by composer Philip Glass and director Mary Zimmerman (with libretto by Zimmerman, Glass, and Arnold Weinstein) combines the elegant but ...
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis makes a practice of reviving underperformed contemporary operas. This season’s example is Philip Glass’s “Galileo Galilei” (2002), a chamber piece that examines the ...
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — Bowling Green State University held a public viewing Thursday of a recently-restored 17th-century collection of works from Galileo Galilei, the revolutionary scientist most ...
Mary Zimmerman translates science to theater better than any director today, and Philip Glass is renowned for adventurous opera music. These two talents seem a fine combo for an opera about Galileo, ...