ELEMENTS OF WILSON'S DIRECTOR POETIC IN OPERA 'EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH'

The conception of Wilson's production and creation is narrowly bound with the question of perceiving the work of art. Based on experiments with the handicapped people, Robert Wilson has defined two principle levels of perception - external and internal. The internal perception level is expressed mainly in the slow motion conception. A retardation of movement brings about in itself also further questions - a missing text component, deformation of time, loss of the story and its dramatic character. These basic elements of Wilson's conception were found in the opera 'Einstein on the Beach', where Wilson had cooperated with the American music composer Philip Glass. A slow motion which is a basis in constructing several scenes in opera, had an impact on the opera libretto which except from a freedom and surrealistic picturing also brings the basic questions of the story and its absence, or the question of conception of music - dramatic characters. Minimalist music of Philip Glass with a pulsing structure and drive towards constant repetition of music models is creating a unique symbiosis with Wilsons's production poetics.