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Einstein on the beach philip glass rar4/10/2023 Einstein On The Beach Performances 2019.But we wanted to do a proscenium piece, and we needed an orchestra pit. “Bob called ‘Einstein’ an opera,” Glass explains. Glass himself is now the world’s best-known classical composer, but he has remained true to those New York downtown artistic roots.We’re talking in the now arty East Village, where the energetic 76-year-old composer lives and works in a brownstone he bought years ago when the neighborhood was still fairly iffy and which has much evidence of his two young sons. It’s “Einstein on the Beach,” which Los Angeles Opera will present next weekend at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.“No, of course not,” Philip Glass answers when I asked whether he and director and visual artist Robert Wilson set out to write an opera nearly 40 years ago, both then part of a small community of SoHo avant-garde artists scraping. NEW YORK - What opera launched a legendarily prolific opera career, influenced a generation of opera composers and is an American opera classic, yet is not an opera and has only been mounted a handful of times in the 37 years since its premiere? That’s an easy riddle.
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