Einstein on the Beach (1976) is a pivotal work in the oeuvre of Philip Glass. It is the first, longest, and most famous of the composer's operas, yet it is in almost every way unrepresentative of them. Einstein was, by design, a glorious "one-shot" - a work that invented its context, form and language, and then explored them so exhaustively that further development would have been redundant. But, by its own radical example, Einstein prepared the way - it gave permission - for much of what has happened in music theater since its premiere. Einstein broke all the rules of Read more on Last.fm.
