About the Author

Born in Waco, Texas, Robert Wilson's career has taken him around the world, designing and directing operas for La Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and the Opéra Bastille in Paris; putting on original productions such as "The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud" and "Einstein on the Beach"; and collaborating with Philip Glass, Heiner Muller, Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs, and Lou Reed. He is the recipient of numerous awards including The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for lifetime achievement and the Golden Lion for Sculpture of the Venice Biennale.

Product Description

Stage director Robert Wilson has devoted the greatest of efforts toward integrating multidisciplinary elements from a range of creative fields into the realm of theater. Light and movement have played an especially central role in his productions, not only as compositional elements but as symbolic features. In this publication, his wildly creative, discipline-crossing oeuvre is approached through a framework of five suggestive sections: The Deaf Man's Gaze, The Automaton's Freedom, What Marlene Dietrich Knew, The Prisms of Silence, and The Theater in Infinite Space.