1998/99 Touring Season
Schedule Subject to Change
- April 15 - 26, 1998 (V1.0): UCLA Center for the Performing Arts, Royce Hall, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- May 19 - 23 (V1.2): The Barbican Center, London, UK.
- July 24 - 25 (V1.3): Festival Castell de Peralada, Catalunya, SPAIN.
- September 9 (V2.0): Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA, USA.
- October 7 - 11: Teatro Massimo Opera House, Palermo (Sicily), ITALY.
- October 13 - 18 (V2.1): Roma Europa Festival, Rome, ITALY.
- October 20 - 25: Deutsches Theater, Munich, GERMANY.
- October 27 - 28: Teatro Storchi, Modena, ITALY.
- October 30 & November 1, 3 - 7: Teatro Politeama, Naples, ITALY.
- November 11 - 14: Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS.
- November 21: Theater & Musikgesellschaft, Zug, SWITZERLAND.
- November 28: Belfast Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
- December 9 - 20: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Opera House, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
- January 23, 1999: Miami Light Project & Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL, USA.
- January 25: Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, Sarasota, FL, USA (Concert Version).
- January 27: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
- January 29 - 30: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
- February 2 - 5: American Music Theater Festival, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
- February 6 - 7: Princeton University, McCarter Theater, Princeton, NJ, USA.
- February 10: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA.
- February 12: Madison Civic Center, Madison, WI, USA.
- February 13: University of Minnesota, Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
- February 15: University of Iowa, Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, IA, USA.
- February 18: University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA.
- February 20: Western Michigan University, Miller Auditorium, Kalamazoo, MI, USA.
- February 23: University of Kansas, Lied Center, Lawrence, KS, USA.
- February 27: William Jewell College, Folly Theater, Liberty, MO, USA.
- March 2: University of Illinois, Krannert Center, Urbana, IL, USA.
- March 5 - 6: Chicago Theater, Chicago, IL, USA.
- March 16: University of Texas at Austin, Bass Concert Hall, Austin, TX, USA.
- March 18 - 21: Society for the Performing Arts, Cullen Theater, Houston, TX, USA.
- March 22: Performing Arts Fort Worth, Ft. Worth, TX, USA.
- March 25: University of Arizona, Centennial Hall, Tucson, AZ, USA.
- March 27: Arizona State University, Gammage Center, Tempe, AZ, USA.
- March 30 (V4.0): UCLA Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- April 7: PICA, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, USA.
- April 9: The Paramount Theater, Seattle, WA, USA.
- April 11: University of California at Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA.
- April 13 - 17: UC Berkeley, Cal Performances, Berkeley, CA, USA.
- April 22: University Musical Society, Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
- April 24 - 25: Roy Thompson Hall, Toronto, CANADA.
- July 17: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, USA.
- July 21 - 22: Athens, GREECE.
Credits
Design and Visual Concept:
Robert Wilson Music:
Philip Glass Yalal al-Din Rumi Translated and Adapted from the original by:
Coleman Barks Sound Design:
Kurt Munkacsi Music Director:
Michael Riesman Film and Computer Animation:
Kleiser-Walczak Construction Company Visual Computing Systems:
Silicon Graphics, Inc. Animation Software:
Alias/Wavefront Directed by:
Diana Walczak and Jeff Kleiser Philip Glass Ensemble:
Philip Glass, Dan Dryden, Jon Gibson, Richard Peck, Michael Riesman, Eleanor Sandresky, Andrew Sterman.
Vocalists:
Marie Mascari, Alexandra Montano, Gregory Purnhagen, Peter Stewart Performers (V 1.0):
Cooper Gerrard (Boy), Christine Säng (Blonde Woman), Nan Friedman (Brunette Woman), Larry Carpenter-White (Man 1), Paul Andrew Thompson (Man 2) Producers:
Linda Greenberg and Jedediah Wheeler MOG Project:
International Production Associates, Inc. (Jedediah Wheeler, President/CEO; Linda Greenberg, Producing Director) in association with Top Shows, Inc. (Alyce Dissette, Director) Executive Producer:
Jedediah Wheeler
Monsters of Grace has been co-commissioned by the UCLA Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, California (USA); Arizona State University Public Events, Tempe, Arizona (USA); The Barbican Centre, London (UK); The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York (USA); Change Performing Arts/Festival sul Novecento, Palermo (Italy); Festival Castell de Peralada, Catalunya (Spain); Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam (The Netherlands); Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR (USA); The Society for the Performing Arts, Houston, TX (USA) and Wolf Trap Foundation, Vienna, Virginia (USA).
Scenes
- Where Everything is Music (12:00).
- The Needle (3:08).
- Don´t Go Back to Sleep (9:00).
- In The Arc of Your Mallet (4:30).
- My Worst Habit (3:01).
- Like This (6:30).
- Stereogram (4:00).
- Let The Letter Read You (3:30).
- Boy Beach and Ball (3:40).
- They Say that Paradise will be Perfect (5:15).
- The New Rule (5:45).
- An Artist Comes to Paint You (3:30).
- Boy On Fire (3:30).
Total Time 1:07:19.
Notes
During the last three years, Bob Wilson and I have been working together on this new theatre project, Monsters of Grace.
Since Einstein on the Beach in 1976, we have met up on various occasions to create a new piece of work but unlike previous projects, with this piece we have had a genuine opportunity to sit down together and plunge ourselves into a new world of ideas.
Of course, the image, the music and the structure were the starting points for our work. Moreover, we are now facing the challenge of new technology and its impact on a developing artistic vision.
It would be fair to say that, as is the case with any project in the pipeline, the process is still very fluid, hard to pin down, and full of surprises for both of us.
Philip Glass
- My aim is not to give you enigmas to resolve,
Merely pictures to listen to.......
Visit our opera as you would a museum,
Appreciate the colour of the apple,
The line of the dress,
The glow of the light,
When you go to the park, you look at the scenery...
You watch the clouds pass.
Look at the music,
Listen to the pictures.
Robert Wilson.
Pictures
GlassPages - Philip Glass on the Web
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