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Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama (Hardcover)
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Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama (Hardcover)
Series: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
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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.
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