Einstein on the Beach
8.8 / 10
265 minutes
2014-01-07
English
FR
Actors :
Helga Davis, Kate Moran, Jasper Newell, Charles Williams, Antoine Silverman, Katie Dorn, Katherine Helen Fisher, Sarah Hillmon, Anne Lewis, Sharon Milanese, Patrick John O'Neill, Matt Pardo, Lonnie Poupard Jr, Caitlin Scranton, John Sorensen-Jolink
Description
This seminal work of avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson arrives full-circle, coming to France, the site of its 1976 Avignon Festival world premiere, at the tail end of this 2014 revival tour for a landmark Theâtre du Châtelet production and a first ever filming by award-winning arts filmmaker Don Kent. Eschewing conventional narrative, the opera revolves loosely around pacifist Einstein’s relationship to the creation of the atomic bomb.