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Author(s): Jelena Novak editor John Richardson editor

Edition: 1

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Year: 2019

Language: english

SKU: EB-38492688 Category: Uncategorized Tags: Beach, Drama, Einstein, Opera

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Author: Jelena, John

Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama

Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s most celebrated collaboration, the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, had its premiere at the Avignon Festival in 1976. During its initial European tour, Metropolitan Opera premiere, and revivals in 1984 and 1992, Einstein provoked opposed reactions from both audiences and critics. Today, Einstein is well on the way itself to becoming a canonized avant-garde work, and it is widely acknowledged as a profoundly significant moment in the history of opera or musical theater. Einstein created waves that for many years crashed against the shores of traditional thinking concerning the nature and creative potential of audiovisual expression. Reaching beyond opera, its influence was felt in audiovisual culture in general: in contemporary avant-garde music, performance art, avant-garde cinema, popular film, popular music, advertising, dance, theater, and many other expressive, commercial, and cultural spheres. Inspired by the 2012–2015 series of performances that re-contextualized this unique work as part of the present-day nexus of theoretical, political, and social concerns, the editors and contributors of this book take these new performances as a pretext for far-reaching interdisciplinary reflection and dialogue. Essays range from those that focus on the human scale and agencies involved in productions to the mechanical and post-human character of the opera’s expressive substance. A further valuable dimension is the inclusion of material taken from several recent interviews with creative collaborators Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, and Lucinda Childs, each of these sections comprising knee plays, or short intermezzo sections resembling those found in the opera Einstein on the Beach itself. The book additionally features a foreword written by the influential musicologist and cultural theorist Susan McClary and an interview with film and theater luminary Peter Greenaway, as well as a short chapter of reminiscences written by the singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega.

Table contents:

Knee chapter 1 Paying attention to Einstein: Philip Glass interviewed by John Richardson
Part 1 Einstein on the shores of culture
1 Einstein on the radio
2 Sous les pavés, la plage
3 Einstein on the Beach in Belgrade: a critical testimony
Knee chapter 2 Einstein on the Beach is not radical, it is classic: Robert Wilson interviewed by Bojan Djordjev
Part 2 From repetition to representation
4 Intuition and algorithm in Einstein on the Beach
5 “Only pictures to hear”: reading Einstein on the Beach through experimental theater
6 Creating beauty in chaos: Robert Wilson’s visual authorship in Einstein on the Beach
Knee chapter 3 Stay out of the way of Bob Wilson when he dances: Lucinda Childs interviewed by Jelena Novak
Part 3 Beyond drama: Surfaces and agencies of performance
7 Heavenly bodies: The integral role of dance in Einstein on the Beach
8 Anonymous voice, sound, indifference
Knee chapter 4 Artists recall and respond
Suzanne Vega, Under the influence – Philip Glass
Two Finnish composers reminisce: Juhani Nuorvala, Petri Kuljuntausta
Tom Johnson, Rehearsing Einstein on the Beach
Two steps forwards but three steps back, and then one step forwards again – Peter Greenaway interviewed by John Richardson
Part 4 Operatic machines and their ghosts
9 Leaving and re-entering: punctuating Einstein on the Beach
10 Historia Einsteinalium : from the beach to the church, via theater and “state bank”
Knee chapter 5 Critical excavations
Pieter T’Jonck, How democratic baroque came about in dance and Einstein on the Beach
Frits van der Waa, Einstein in the press
Appendix 1: Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach, storyboard drawings
Appendix 2: Einstein on the Beach, spoken texts