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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. In continuity with the opera’s debut, for this new production, hailed by Le Figaro as ‘meticulously crafted total artwork in which the visual and musical craft are inseparable’, the music is again performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble and the choreography devised by original cast member Lucinda Childs for her Lucinda Childs Dance Company, with the scenes taking place under Bob Wilson’s own digitally remastered light design.
Music: Philip Glass
Helga Davis
Kate Moran
Antoine Silverman
The Lucinda Childs Dance Company
The Philip Glass Ensemble
Conductor: Michael Riesman
Director: Robert Wilson
Choreography: Lucinda Childs
Spoken Text: Christopher Knowles, Samuel M. Johnson, Lucinda Childs
Picture: 16:9
Format: NTSC
Sound: PCM 2.0 / DTS Surround
Region: 0 (all regions)
Running time: 264 mins
Year: 2014
