Robert Wilson (director)
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Robert Wilson was an American director and playwright of experimental theater. He also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer. He is bes
Wilson in 2014
Act IV, Scene 3C "Space Machine" from Einstein on the Beach in Amsterdam, 2013
Wilson at the White House in 2023
Wilson in 2014
Einstein on the Beach
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Einstein on the Beach is an opera in four acts by Robert Wilson with music composed by Philip Glass. The opera eschews traditional narrative in favor of a formalist approach based on structured spaces
Robert Wilson (director)
…painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer. He is best known for his collaboration with Philip Glass and Lucinda Childs on Einstein on the Beach, and his frequent collaborations with Tom Waits. In 1991, Wilson established The Watermill Center, "a laboratory for performance" on the East End of…
A 2012 production
Théâtre Municipal in Avignon, France, site of the opera's 1976 premiere
Scene from the opera performed 10 January 2013