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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.
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This weekend was a good one for shows that, each in their own way, give a fairly wide leeway to the audience: You make of them what you will. This is frustrating to those who prefer to be told what… ...
PEOPLE talk about Einstein on the Beach - the opera by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson - and how there is no story, the music is repetitive and the whole 4 1/2 hours will be a big yawn. But ...
'Einstein on the Beach" is one of those landmarks of modernism that everyone knows about but has not necessarily seen. This 1976 work, the first collaboration between director Robert Wilson and ...
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 … ...