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Einstein on the Beach (2014)
Directed by Robert Wilson, Don Kent
Overview
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.
Length 265 minutes
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 | Shakirah Stewart | Philip Anderson | Joe Damon Chappel | Hai-Ting Chinn | Tomás Cruz | Michèle A. Eaton | John Kawa | Lindsay Kesselman | Kate Maroney | Solange Merdinian | Gregory R. Purnhagen | Melanie Russell | Jason Charles Walker