Wilson/Glass - Einstein on the Beach - Train - Frankfurt 1992
Recorded live at a performance at the Frankfurt Opera in August 1992 during the opera's second touring revival. Note the significant differences between Lucinda Childs' original version of the "Diagonal Dance" here and the version performed by Caitlin Scranton in the 2012-2015 revival: • Einstein on the Beach - Train
"In an open rehearsal of Einstein on the Beach (March 1976), the 45-minute solo for Childs was a remarkable and moving performance. The dance unfolded gradually, the spare, ritual-like gestures…eventually becoming manic and restless. She skittered and limped and bounced while making complicated darting hand signals….The character changed with the speed of hallucinations intercepting one another. If I blinked, she may have turned from clown to baseball coach, or from didactic professor to drunkard. It was uncanny and it was beautiful.” -- Wendy Perron, Soho Weekly News, March 1976.
Einstein on the Beach: An Opera in Four Acts
Directed by Robert Wilson
Music by Philip Glass
Libretto by Christopher Knowles, Samuel M. Johnson, and Lucinda Childs
Act 1, Scene 1: Train
Cast:
Dancer on Three Diagonals: Lucinda Childs
Boy on Tower: Jeremy Montemarano
Woman in Perpendicular Dance: Susan Blankensop
Woman with Newspaper: Sheryl L. Sutton
Woman with Shell: Elsa Higby
Man with Red Shirt, Calculating: Jeffrey Johnson
Train Engineer: Eric W. Lamp
Vocal Duet: Lisa Bielawa, Marion Beckenstein
Musicians:
Michael Riesman -- keyboards, musical direction
Martin Goldray -- keyboards
David Weiss -- piccolo
Andrew Sterman -- flute
Jon Gibson -- soprano saxophone
Richard Peck -- alto saxophone
Dan Dryden -- live sound mix
This is an edited, denoised, and brightened segment of this video which contains the complete first and second acts of the opera: • Recording of Einstein on the Beach at the ...
