Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around … - Philip Glass

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Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera. . . Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.

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