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This non-narrative opera portrays Albert Einstein through a sequence of nine connected scenes in four acts, framed by five interludes called Knee Plays. Its recurring settings include a train, a trial, and a field with a spaceship; numbers, solfège syllables, and short passages of poetry replace a conventional plot.
A multimedia chamber opera in 13 short acts, the work sets poems by Jalaluddin Rumi to music by Philip Glass and was directed by Robert Wilson. Its original production paired live music with 3D computer-animated film projected above the musicians.
The play portrays Oldcastle as a religious but politically loyal dissenter who remains faithful to the Crown and Henry V. The Bishop of Rochester and his summoner pursue Oldcastle and his wife, while conspirators remain separate from him; the Oldcastles evade imprisonment, ending the extant play on a temporary positive note. The planned second part, which would have depicted Oldcastle's execution, is lost.
In an allegorical morality comedy, Lady Lucre and her allies of fraud and usury corrupt London, subduing Love and Conscience. The honest Jewish lender Gerontius contrasts with the Christian merchant who defaults, before Judge Nicholas Nemo attempts to restore order.
A five-act opera arranged as a panorama of characters and events, from Portuguese voyages of exploration to modern lunar missions and imagined future space travel. Its libretto combines poetic writing with scientific texts, headlines, travel accounts and historical names rather than telling a conventional story.
Conceived as a daylong, international music-theatre work for the 1984 Olympics, this five-act project combines sections by composers from several countries. The planned complete performance was cancelled, but four sections received productions; they include a Cologne family and political drama and a Rome act depicting figures from the American Civil War.
This non-narrative opera portrays Albert Einstein through a sequence of nine connected scenes in four acts, framed by five interludes called Knee Plays. Its recurring settings include a train, a trial, and a field with a spaceship; numbers, solfège syllables, and short passages of poetry replace a conventional plot.
A multimedia chamber opera in 13 short acts, the work sets poems by Jalaluddin Rumi to music by Philip Glass and was directed by Robert Wilson. Its original production paired live music with 3D computer-animated film projected above the musicians.
The play portrays Oldcastle as a religious but politically loyal dissenter who remains faithful to the Crown and Henry V. The Bishop of Rochester and his summoner pursue Oldcastle and his wife, while conspirators remain separate from him; the Oldcastles evade imprisonment, ending the extant play on a temporary positive note. The planned second part, which would have depicted Oldcastle's execution, is lost.
In an allegorical morality comedy, Lady Lucre and her allies of fraud and usury corrupt London, subduing Love and Conscience. The honest Jewish lender Gerontius contrasts with the Christian merchant who defaults, before Judge Nicholas Nemo attempts to restore order.
A five-act opera arranged as a panorama of characters and events, from Portuguese voyages of exploration to modern lunar missions and imagined future space travel. Its libretto combines poetic writing with scientific texts, headlines, travel accounts and historical names rather than telling a conventional story.
Conceived as a daylong, international music-theatre work for the 1984 Olympics, this five-act project combines sections by composers from several countries. The planned complete performance was cancelled, but four sections received productions; they include a Cologne family and political drama and a Rome act depicting figures from the American Civil War.