Work: Einstein on the Beach

Einstein on the Beach is the second in the Philip Glass Portrait Trilogy given a new exciting production by State Opera of South Australia.

It isn’t so much that Einstein on the Beach is impossible to summarise, I don’t think, as that it’s just impossible generally. At least, if you were to list this opera’s various constituent elements to somebody, and ask them if it was basically plausible, they would probably say no. Suffice it to say the following: it is four and a half hours long and there is no interval.

Sans la mise en scène de Bob Wilson, l'œuvre majeure de Philip Glass révèle toute son inconsistance malgré l'engagement de l'Ensemble Ictus et du Collegium Vocale Gent.