In 1976, Robert Wilson and Philip Glass collaborated on an experimental opera/performance called Einstein at the Beach. My father saw it at the Metropolitan Opera and was blown away. He’d never seen anything like it before.

There were revivals in 1984 and 1992. I attended a performance of the four-hour opera at BAM in 1992 with my Dad. It was a great night out preceded by a pastrami sandwich at a deli in Manhattan and an incredible evening of music, dance and theater. We joined the audience in an uproarious standing ovation. This

This fall it returns to BAM as part of BAM’s 150th anniversary celebrations.

Einstein on the Beach, with choreography by Lucinda Child, is truly mesmerizing. Glass’s repetitious score is hypnotic and meditative, as are the tableaus created by Wilson. “A cosmic chorus of syllables, numbers, streams of consciousness, and enigmatic poems,” the work is truly one of the greats of the last century.

Try to get tickets says me.