DORIAN previews start tomorrow - Exhibition of drawings and furniture in Düsseldorf

Robert Wilson’s third production at the D’haus (Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus Theater), Dorian, with a text by Darryl Pinckney, based on motives from Oscar Wilde’s life and work, starts previewing tomorrow, June 6, 2022. The opening will be on June 9, and the show will remain in D’haus repertory.

The following day, Gallery Beck & Eggeling in Düsseldorf will open an exhibition of selected furniture and new drawings by Robert Wilson (most of them related to Dorian), entitled: “Dorian and The Days Before: Death, Destruction and Detroit III.“ The exhibition will be up until July 23.

"A Boy From Texas" - NY opening today - Bird and Fox still up in Houston

Some of the unique glass sculptures that Robert Wilson designed and developed in 2019 with the Corning Museum of Glass will be on display at Cristina Grajales Gallery in Tribeca, opening today, until September 9. The installation in blown and cast glass reflects on nature, fragility, and rebirth, in memory of Wilson’s childhood in Texas, as well as his early theater works and installations developed in rural America.

A Boy From Texas - Cristina Grajales Gallery - from today through September 9, 2022

In April this year, when Robert Wilson’s Turandot opened at Houston Grand Opera, the Josh Pazda & Hiram Butler Gallery presented a selection of his video portraits - among those the “Hermès by Nature” series that premièred during Here Elsewhere in 2016 -, drawings and other works. This exhibit will be on view until June 25 only.

A Bird and A Fox - JOSH PAZDA HIRAM BUTLER - until June 25, 2022

Detail from: Robert Wilson, Wouter (Cordon Bleu Finch), 2016; video portrait from the series Hermés by Nature

Check out all current and upcoming exhibitions of Robert Wilson’s works here.

EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH iconic Bed Scene minted as a digital artwork

The latest revival of the original production of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s opera Einstein on the Beach (1976) was in 2012, and it toured around the world. Now it is making its entrée into the digital realm: the iconic “Bed scene", the slow rise of a horizontal light bar into fully vertical, and its upward float out of the scene, has been minted into the first-ever EOB NFT (non-fungible token).

The 20-minute NFT will be exhibited live at the equally iconic Kraftwerk (“power plant”) in Berlin, every event night at 9:45 PM, presented by the DAO Bright Moments, and auctioned on April 22-23, 2022.

For tickets and schedule click here.

For more information on the EOB NFT click here.

To view Robert Wilson’s profile on Foundation.App and purchase the NFT click here.

Einstein on the Beach (Montpellier, 2012), Act 4, Scene 2 - Photograph © Lucie Jansch

Changed OTELLO dates in Athens

On account of the recent weather disruptions in Athens, the Greek National Opera had to change the rehearsal and performance schedule of Otello at the Stavros Niarchos Hall. The opening has been postponed to February 23 (instead of 20), the performance on March 6 has been replaced by one on March 5, and another show was added on March 8.

Click here for the notice on the Greek National Opera’s web site.

New Robert Wilson Documentary to première on ARTE this Sunday 01/16

The new documentary film, “Robert Wilson - The Beauty of the Mysterious” by Carl von Karstedt will première on the French-German TV station ARTE this Sunday. The broadcast on the German side will start at 11:15PM, and in France just after midnight (Monday).

The filmmaker, Carl von Karstedt, was driven by his fascination for his first Wilson piece, The Black Rider (Hamburg 1990), and all the others he has seen since, and his goal to “crack the unique artistic code” around Robert Wilson’s works. For this film, he accompanied Wilson for about a year to various rehearsals and projects, and met several of his key collaborators.

A Film by Carl von Karstedt; with: Marina Abramovic, Willem Dafoe, Tom Waits, Philipp Glass, Christian Friedel, Christopher Nell, Ann-Christin Rommen, Stefan Kurt, Sabin Tambrea and Traute Hoess

Shakespeare in Sofia: Robert Wilson stages THE TEMPEST

Robert Wilson has started the final rehearsals for his new theater production in Bulgaria’s capital, The Tempest by William Shakespeare. After King Lear, HAMLET: a monologue, A Winter’s Tale and Shakespeare’s Sonnets, this will be his fifth major staged work by The Bard.

The work is commissioned by the National Theater “Ivan Vazov” in Sofia, where Wilson will make his debut with this production. The Tempest will enter the theater’s regular repertory after the opening on November 18. Ticket sales will start in the next few days. Check back regularly, as more repertory performances will be planned and published in the coming weeks and months, both on our production page, and on the theater’s web site.

Stage Set Model from the first concept workshop at The Watermill Center (photographs: Marie de Testa)

"Stages Without Borders" - Venice Announces New Season Including PATIO in November

The Teatro Stabile del Veneto, and its new Artistic Director, Giorgio Ferrara, have announced their upcoming season, themed “Stages Without Borders.” In Ferrara’s programming, Robert Wilson’s Paris revival of I Was Sitting On My Patio… will appear for four performances this November at the 400-year old Teatro Goldoni in Venice.

Stages Without Borders

Read the news article from “La Repubblica” (Sept. 27, 2021) by clicking on the screenshot.