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About This Show

In 1976, audiences around the globe experienced a collective dream. Time slowed, sound tumbled everywhere and nowhere, and cryptic images froze in light. It was the collaboration of the century: Robert Wilson and Philip Glass, two chief manipulators of artistic time, joined forces in the name of another time-bender, Einstein, to create a visual, kinetic, and musical work that forever revolutionized the landscape of artistic achievement. Following critically acclaimed revivals in 1984 and 1992, Einstein on the Beach returns this fall as part of BAM’s 150th anniversary celebrations.

With no story, hero, or heroine, Einstein unfolds as a hypnotic tableau, inspired by the poetic idea of a genius and propelled by Glass’ sublime score. A cosmic chorus of syllables, numbers, streams of consciousness, and enigmatic poems-punctuated by Lucinda Childs’ choreography-unfurls beneath Wilson’s spectacular set, enlivening this epic, seminal masterwork of 20th-century performance.

Show Details

Running Time: 4hr 30min (0 intermissions)
Dates: Opening Night: September 14, 2012 Final Performance: September 23, 2012

TheaterMania Review

| | September 17, 2012
This revival of the famed Philip Glass-Robert Wilson plotless opera at BAM is worth seeing even if it doesn’t all add up.

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