Einstein on the Beach is an opera that was written by Phillip Glass in 1976. It is unlike any other opera of its time as it has no storyline, no hero and no obvious link between different scenes, or even between what is seen and heard. It is said to have irreparably changed the image of opera.
Glass had some difficulty in defining the nature of Einstein on the Beach, originally as it did not seem to fall comfortably into the niche of a dance, or a musical, or a painting. So Glass chose to call it an opera, coming from the Latin, opus, meaning work. In that way, it is the perfect word to describe this unconventional spectacle. The opera plays with using different speeds and moods, created by the sounds of the music, the dancers and singers and by the occasional bit of spoken text.
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