Einstein on the beach
Subtitle: highlights
By: Philip Glass, Robert Wilson
Contributors: Wilson, Robert, 1941- director, designer; Verges, Chrisann, producer; Obenhaus, Mark, director, photographer; Glass, Philip, composer, producer; Munkacsi, Kurt, producer; Christensen, Don, 1948- producer; Lyman, Will, 1948- narrator; Philip Glass Ensemble; Brooklyn Academy of Music; Obenhaus Films (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Orange Mountain Music
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] :
Number of pages: 77
Subjects: Drama; Opera; Operas; Excerpts; Production and direction
Other titles: Changing image of opera.
Work titles: Einstein on the beach
Notes: Companion DVD entitled: Einstein on the beach : the changing image of opera / a production of Obenhaus Films, Inc. for the Brooklyn Academy of Music ; a film by Mark Obenhaus ; produced by Chrisann Verges ; directed and photographed by Mark Obenhaus. Narrated by Will Lyman, and originally produced in 1985.

Companion DVD contains a documentary offering insights into Einstein on the Beach, through interviews with creators composer Philip Glass and director/designer Robert Wilson, who explain some of their structural choices and the concepts behind the opera.  The film features rehearsal and performance footage from the 1984 production of the opera at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.  It offers a look at the creative processes of two of the most important figures in American contemporary music and theatre, and examines the evolution of the performing arts

Executive producers: Philip Glass, Kurt Munkacsi, and Don Christensen.

Performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble.

Recorded at various live performances of the opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1984.
Table of contents: title: Knee 1; title: Train; title: Trial, pt. 1; title: Trial, pt. 20; title: Trial, pt. 30; title: Knee 20; title: Dance 1; title: Night train; title: Knee 3; title: Trial-prison, pt. 1; title: Trial-prison, pt. 2; title: Trial-prison, pt. 3; title: Trial-prison, pt. 4; title: Dance 2; title: Knee 4; title: Building; title: Cadenza; title: Bed, pt. 1; title: Bed, pt. 2; title: Spaceship; title: Knee 5.