A scene from the Opéra de Montpellier revival of Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach, which opened Friday night. It arrives at the Sony Centre for three performances, starting June 8 (Lucie Jansch photo for Le Figaro).
“You don’t have to understand anything. It is a work where you can go and get lost,” says Robert Wilson of his Einstein on the Beach, the opera he co-created with composer Philip Glass.
Einstein is set to have its Canadian premiere on June 8, at this year’s Luminato festival. This revival, which had its first public performance in Montpellier, France, on Friday night, is intended to take the opera to places it hasn’t been since its 1976 premiere (also in France). Continue reading
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