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“When we started ‘Satyagraha,’ everyone was kind of skeptical,” said Jean Braham, a chorister since the late 1990s.

Some of his most inspired creations have been stagings of Glass’s operas — especially the ritualistic set pieces of “Satyagraha” and the juggling spectacle of “Akhnaten.”

Your stagings of “Satyagraha,” “Akhnaten” and “The Perfect American” have different unifying concepts.

McDERMOTT, whose Met credits include blockbuster productions of Glass’s “Satyagraha” and “Akhnaten,” had been told that the opera’s constant shifting of time and place would make it “impossible” to direct.

At JFK, her walk was accompanied by a haunting and somber excerpt from the opera “Satyagraha,” by composer Philip Glass.