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- It is Glass's first and longest opera score, taking approximately five hours in full performance without intermission; given the length, the audience is permitted to enter and leave as desired.
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Einstein on the Beach is an opera in four acts composed by Philip Glass with libretto in collaboration with Robert Wilson, who also designed and directed early productions.
Sep 21, 2012 · The opera runs approximately 4.5 hours. Here are some odd, but true, things we’ve learned about the making of and remaking of a masterpiece, which is on view now through Sunday at Brooklyn...
Dive deep into Philip Glass, Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion
Einstein on the Beach is an opera written by the minimalist composer Philip Glass and theater director and designer Robert Wilson. It was first acted for an audience in Avignon, France in 1976. It is a single act opera, about five hours long with no intermission.
Nov 18, 2020 · “Einstein on the Beach” has no beach. Glass’ relentlessly fast and loud score is four hard-driving hours of Minimalism. Spoken text comes from the sputtering of mid-1970s New York AM radio ...
- Mark Swed
- Classical Music Critic
- mark.swed@latimes.com
Nearly four decades after it was first performed and twenty years since its last production, Einstein on the Beach was reconstructed for a major international tour including the first performances in the United Kingdom and the first North American presentations ever held outside of New York City.
Oct 29, 2012 · Philip Glass and Robert Wilson created “Einstein on the Beach” in 1976, and neither music nor music theater — including, and especially, opera — has ever been quite the same since. Glass’...
