Philip Glass’s minimalist opera, Einstein on the Beach, premiered in 1976, and its peculiar nature, both in the music and the on-stage action, provided fodder for a number of reviews, descriptions, and commentaries. Einstein on the Beach From top, Jasper Newell, Sharon Milanese and Caitlin Scranton in Philip Glass’s opera at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. “Einstein on the Beach” is more known about than known.

Einstein on the Beach is an in four acts (framed and connected by five 'knee plays' or ), composed by and directed by theatrical producer. The opera eschews traditional narrative in favor of a formalist approach based on structured spaces laid out by Wilson in a series of storyboards. The music was written 'in the spring, summer and fall of 1975'. Glass recounts the collaborative process: 'I put [Wilson’s notebook of sketches] on the piano and composed each section like a portrait of the drawing before me. The score was begun in the spring of 1975 and completed by the following November, and those drawings were before me all the time.' The premiere took place on July 25, 1976, at the in France. The opera contains writings by, Samuel M.

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. The work became the first in Glass's thematically related Portrait Trilogy, along with (1979), and (1983). These three operas were described by Glass as portraits of people whose personal vision transformed the thinking of their times through the power of ideas rather than by military force. • ^ Philip Glass, Music by Philip Glass (New York: Harper and Row, 1997) 40. Stanford University Libraries. Retrieved 2012-04-14. • 2012-02-05 at the, CBS Masterworks recording.

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Retrieved 10 March 2015. •, production details, April 2017 (in German) • Robert Schwarz, Minimalists (London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1996) 135. • Trevor Fairbrother, 'Robert Wilson's Vision'. (New York: Harry Abrams, 1991) p. 120 • ^ David Cunningham, 'Einstein on the Beach' in Writings on Glass: Essays Interviews and Criticism. Edited by Richard Kostelanetz. (New York: Schirmer Books, 1997)153.

• by,, September 22, 2008 •, Amazon.com • by bdeshazor, Pacifica Radio, 14 October 2013 •. Retrieved November 12, 2017. External links [ ] •, philipglass.com • by Nicolas Sceaux, 2002 • from the world premiere of Einstein on the Beach, Avignon Festival, 1976.