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Einstein on the Beach : ウィキペディア英語版 | Einstein on the Beach
''Einstein on the Beach'' is an opera in four acts (framed and connected by five "knee plays" or intermezzos), composed by Philip Glass and directed by theatrical producer Robert Wilson.〔Philip Glass, ''Music by Philip Glass'' (New York: Harper and Row, 1997) 40.〕 The opera eschews traditional narrative in favor of a formalist approach based on structured spaces laid out by Wilson in a series of storyboards. The music was written "in the spring, summer and fall of 1975."〔(''Einstein on the Beach'' ), CBS Masterworks recording〕 Glass recounts the collaborative process: "I put (notebook of sketches ) on the piano and composed each section like a portrait of the drawing before me. The score was begun in the spring of 1975 and completed by the following November, and those drawings were before me all the time." The premiere took place on July 25, 1976, at the Avignon Festival in France. The opera contains writings by Christopher Knowles, Samuel M. Johnson and Lucinda Childs. It is Glass's first and longest opera score, taking approximately five hours in full performance without intermission; given the length, the audience is permitted to enter and leave as desired.〔 The work became the first in Glass's thematically related Portrait Trilogy, along with ''Satyagraha'' (1979), and ''Akhnaten'' (1983). These three operas were described by Glass as portraits of people whose personal vision transformed the thinking of their times through the power of ideas rather than by military force.〔 == Composition and performance history ==
Glass and Wilson first met to discuss the prospects of a collaborative work, and decided on an opera of between four and five hours in length based around a historical persona. Wilson initially suggested Charlie Chaplin or Adolf Hitler, whom Glass outright rejected, while Glass proposed Mahatma Gandhi (later the central figure of his opera ''Satyagraha''). Albert Einstein was the eventual compromise.
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