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●ILLUSTRATION● POSTER for EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH


Director and choreographer Shintaro Hirahara (平原慎太郎) offered Katsuhiro Otomo to illustrate the poster of the avant-garde opera "Einstein on the Beach", in which minimal music master Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson attempted to interpret the scientist Albert Einstein poetically back in 1976.


OTOMO'S COMMENTS

Why did you get the offer?
The image came from the title "Einstein on the Beach".
I wanted to paint a picture of the sea.

In producing the illustration
It was hard because it was my first painting in a long time.

CREDITS

Einstein On The Beach (Abridged Version)
An Opera by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass
© 1976 Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc.

Music:
Philip Glass

Lines:
Christopher Knowles
Samuel Johnson
Lucinda Childs

Translation:
Konosu Yukiko (鴻巣友季子)

Composition:
1975-1976

Premiere:
July 25, 1976
Avignon Theater Festival (France)

Japanese premiere:
October 18, 1992

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