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...Bonnie Marranca Einstein on the Beach , Robert Wilson and Philip Glass, Metropolitan Opera House Copyright © Yale/Theatre 1977 1977 The Avant-Garde and the Audience By Bonnie Marranca Einstcin on the Beach Robert Wilson and Philip Glass Metropolitan Opera House...

...Marc Robinson “Seventeen photocopies of a man’s hand, each depicting a different highly expressive gesture”: this provocative piece of research from Robert Wilson’s archive at the Columbia University Library draws Marc Robinson back to Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach . From its famously semaphoric...

... recent book is The THE $ VALUE OF MAN, Einstein on the Beach, and Emily Likes the Culture Watch. T V. Lawrence DeVine is a drama critic for The Detroit Free Press, and Stanley Moss is author of The Wrong Angel, a volume of poems Associate Director...

.... Opera House. If it attracts attention, it may then be presented on a limited basis in America as his Einstein on the Beach was five...

... - a dance-opera- drama created in collaboration with the composer, Philip Glass planes into the air every five or ten minutes; a woman dances of - is actually entitled Einstein On The Beach. diagonally...

...—it was 1976, in Avignon, at one of the first performances of Einstein on the Beach—Philip Glass said to me in an off-the-cuff moment, “Bob Wilson and I are going to be the Brecht and Weill of our generation.” That didn’t happen. And couldn’t...

... watching a Polish-­language documentary in an attempt to recon- struct Jerzy Grotowski’s actor training with absolute precision, resulting in a sort of meta-documentary.­ Scheduled future releases include documentaries about the 1970s American avant-­ garde milestone opera Einstein on the Beach...

... watching a Polish-­language documentary in an attempt to recon- struct Jerzy Grotowski’s actor training with absolute precision, resulting in a sort of meta-documentary.­ Scheduled future releases include documentaries about the 1970s American avant-­ garde milestone opera Einstein on the Beach...

... and Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s five-­hour, theater- ­of-­images “portrait opera” Einstein on the Beach. Later I saw Peter Brook’s eleven-­hour adaptation of the Sanskrit epic The Mahabharata and Ariane Mnouchkine’s Les Atrides, a ten-­hour Kathakali-­inspired Oresteia with Euripides’ Iphigenia...

...: notably Philip Glass’s operas starting with Einstein on the Beach (1976, staged by Robert Wilson) and continu- ing promisingly up to John Adams’s Nixon in China (1987). Theatrically, this trend grew from Cage and Cunningham’s music-dance collaborative...

... Earlier this season Einstein on the Beach production at Bayreuth in 1988 or 1989. I performed in Lyon on October 23, and later ap- was revived at the Brooklyn Academy of spoke with the Wagners recently and asked peared at the The‘iitre des Champs-Elyse‘es in Music and once again it proved...

... audiences have not tle rectangles which combine to form larger seen a large-scale Wilson work since Einstein geometric patterns. Even in its present disar- on the Beach was presented at the Metropoli...

..., and I queen creation Gazelle Diomenda and assorted pursuers said, “Let’s do a play in one of the motel rooms about Albert and lovers - brilliant comic/grotesque puppets by Einstein’s dead daughter.” So we did it and it was Atomic Chrystene Ells. The common thread is the passionate...

... a picture of sheer hopefulness-and remarkable patience as the hopes are dashed. Music again provides an apt analogy: Greenspan’s speakers are like the figure of Einstein in Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach, sitting at the front of the stage and sawing away at the violin for long stretches...

...- 81 bay-cheng­ umentation, such as the streaming version of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach, performances in the subscription series Ontheboards.tv, and the digital Routledge Performance Archive...

... sec.) a Oh! Uh . . . later. (“God Only Knows” (vocals only) — The Beach Boys — 1 sec.) a No. Wrong show. (“Liebestraum no. 3” — Liszt — 2 sec.) a Oh good. Something like this. Not this but something like this. (“Colonel Bogey March” — Ricketts — 2 sec.) a C’mon. (“Sylvia...

... earlier Wilson pieces- the boy in Einstein on the Beach, flying paper airplanes as a steam engine crosses the stage and later riding a spaceship as if it were an amusement-park ride; the duke at the end of Lohengrin, a scrawny child, not the valiant leader of standard interpretations...

..., performing a listing dance — from Baby Blood — that predicts the sinister dervish moves he would choreograph for Einstein on the Beach. In footage of Claim, one of his early pieces, a no less youthful Vito Acconci, blindfolded and armed with a crowbar, ferociously guards the foot of a lower Manhattan...

... Wilson and Philip Glass’ Einstein on the Beach, the most celebrated new opera of the past decade. Left: Robert Ashley in Perjed Lives For Ashley, opera is a kind of codeword for (Private Parts...

... Final scene from Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach, 1976. Photo...