Robert Wilson, visionary of the Experimental Theater and the avant -garde opera, has died this July 31 at his home in New York, at age 83, after facing a “brief but serious illness.”
Wilson was one of the revolutionaries of contemporary theater thanks to his visual, minimalist and non -narrative approach. Formed in architecture, their montages transgressed the traditional notions of time and space and were pure visual poetry.
Wilson consecrated himself in 1976 with the premiere of ‘Einstein on the Beach’, a founding work of contemporary opera. Based on one of the best known musical compositions of Philip Glass and a choreography by Lucinda Childs, it is his most influential piece.
Wilson collaborated with a multitude of pop world, notably with Tom Waits, with whom he composed ‘The Black Rider’, based on a text by William S. Burroughs. He also worked with Lady Gaga at the ‘Artpop’ era (2013). For example, he designed the scene of the ‘Applause’ performance of Gaga in the MTV Video Music Awards. In addition, he captured Gaga in a series of portraits that were exposed in the Louvre.
Author of original works as dreamlike as ‘Deafman Glance’ (1970), Wilson also set up tremendously original versions of Shakespeare, Brecht and Beckett classics, and worked with other musical artists such as Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson or Anohni.
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