Famously, "Einstein" runs nearly 4 1/2 hours without an intermission, but the audience is free to come and go as the piece unfolds - a license that many in Friday's audience took with relief.

At 4½ hours, the slow-motion, narrative-free Einstein on the Beach is either a masterpiece or mumbo-jumbo, depending on your viewpoint. Having drawn tears and tirades since its first showing in ...

“I saw ‘Einstein on the Beach’ more as a portrait opera,” Glass wrote in his 1987 autobiography, “Music by Philip Glass.” “In this case, the portrait of Einstein that we would be ...

In the stirring revival of “Einstein on the Beach” at Brooklyn Academy of Music, impressions come in waves: ... Photos and Videos; Espanol; Local News. New York News; Manhattan; Bronx ...

The 1976 Philip Glass-Robert Wilson “Einstein on the Beach” changed how we think about opera, theater, time, the composer and even Einstein.

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BERKELEY — The magic is back. Boy, is it ever. Philip Glass and Robert Wilson created “Einstein on the Beach” in 1976, and neither music nor music theater — including, and especially ...

For a work that is now 37 years old, Philip Glass' "Einstein on the Beach" remains challenging and utterly modern. Skip to main content Plus Icon Click to expand the Mega Menu ...

Einstein on the Beach debuted in 1976 as a four-and-a-half-hour work that tackled a thematic range of Albert Einstein‘s life, scientific and personal, and was called genre-defying and ...

1. It was composed by Philip Glass in 1975; the opera premiered in Avignon, France, in 1976. 2. The new touring production is the opera’s first full staging in 20 years. 3. “Einstein” is ...

A tumultuous span of 82 years separates the arrival of Albert Einstein in Los Angeles as a visiting scientist at the California Institute of Technology and this month’s Los Angeles premiere … ...