Einstein on the Beach

2014

English

7.7

♡ 5

Action

albert einstein

contemporary classical music

minimalism

Music

opera

Don Kent Director

Jasper Newell as Boy

Helga Davis as Featured Performer

Kate Moran as Featured Performer

Philip Glass as Self

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.