Panikkar

Premiered at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 2022 – with Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming and Kelli O’Hara as its stars – Kevin Puts’s The Hours was praised by The New York Times as “sincere and persuasive … fervent … and soaringly lyrical”. The opera returns to the Met’s schedule in May 2024. Based on both the award-winning 2002 film directed by Stephen Daldry and the original novel by Michael Cunningham, The Hours interweaves characters and events from three different periods of the 20th century. Joyce DiDonato, who takes the pivotal role of writer Virginia Woolf, says that: “Even though it deals with death head-on, the piece is life-affirming and tells a timeless story. The characters’ struggles are shared universally, and by highlighting them through the different personalities and periods, hopefully everybody can find a part of themselves in the story.”

Questa breve antologia costituisce la settima e ultima parte dell'opera I Veda, una traduzione dei passi più significativi e pregnanti delle Sacre Scritture degli hindū curata da Panikkar e pubblicata in questa stessa collana. Pur indirizzata principalmente a un uso liturgico, essa è tuttavia essenziale per comprendere il mondo vedico, il senso di solidarietà cosmica, fratellanza universale e unione con il divino custodito come un tesoro segreto nel "tempio interiore" di ciascun uomo.