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Robert Wilson

Director

Robert Wilson was born on 4 October in 1941. He is one of the world’s leading theatre and visual artists. His stage works unconventionally combine a variety of artistic media including dance, movement, lighting, sculpture, music and text. His work is aesthetically striking and his performances have earned acclaim from audiences and critics around the world. After the education at the University of Texas and Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, Wilson founded the New York-based performance collective “The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds” in the mid-1950s and created his first major original works, including “Deafman Glance” and “A Letter for Queen Victoria” and the seminal opera “Einstein on the Beach” he wrote with Philip Glass. Wilson’s artistic collaborators include many writers and musicians such as Heiner Müller, Tom Waits, Susan Sontag, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, Lou Reed, Jessye Norman and Anna Calvi. Wilson is the founder and artistic director of the Watermill Center, an arts laboratory in New York.

Photo by Lucie Jansch

Interview with the director


The Most Important Works in Theatre

2022
Darryl Pinckney, Robert Wilson (based on Oscar Wilde ) Dorian
Directed by Robert Wilson, National Kaunas Drama Theatre
Darryl Pinckney, Robert Wilson (based on Oscar Wilde) Dorian
Directed by Robert Wilson, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany
2019
Rudyard Kipling Jungle Book 
Directed by Robert Wilson, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany
2018
E.T.A. Hoffmann The Sandman
Directed by Robert Wilson, Schauspielhaus Theater, Düsseldorf, Germany
Giuseppe Verdi The Troubadour
Directed by Robert Wilson, Teatro Farnese (Verdi Festival), Parma, Italy
2015
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust Part I and II
Directed by Robert Wilson, Berliner Ensemble, Berlin, Germany
Giuseppe Verdi Traviata
Directed by Robert Wilson, Volksgarten Musical Theatre, Linz, Austria
2013
Homer Odyssey
Directed by Robert Wilson, the Piccolo Theater, Milan, Italy
2010
Vincenzo Bellini Norma
Directed by Robert Wilson, Opernhaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
2009
Shakespeare’s Sonnets (a selection of Sonnets by W. Shakespeare)
Directed by Robert Wilson, Berliner Ensemble, Berlin, Germany
Samuel Beckett Krapp's Last Tape
Directed by Robert Wilson, Festival of the Two Worlds, Caio Melisso Theater, Spoleto, Italy
2007
Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill The Threepenny Opera
Directed by Robert Wilson, Berliner Ensemble, Berlin, Germany
2005
William Shakespeare A Winter’s Tale
Directed by Robert Wilson, Berliner Ensemble, Berlin, Germany
1997
Claude Debussy Pelléas and Mélisande
Directed by Robert Wilson, Paris National Opera / Palais Garnier, Paris, France
1993
Giacomo Puccini Madama Butterfly
Directed by Robert Wilson, Paris National Opera / Opéra Bastille, Paris, France
1976
Robert Wilson, Philip Glass Einstein on the Beach
Directed by Robert Wilson, Théâtre Municipal (Festival d'Avignon), Avignon, France
1974
Robert Wilson A Letter for Queen Victoria
Directed by Robert Wilson, Teatro Caio Melisso (Festival dei Due Mondi Spoleto), Spoleto, Italy
1970
Robert Wilson Deafman Glance
Directed by Robert Wilson, University Theater (Center for New Performing Arts), Iowa City, IA

Awards

2014
Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit - Awarded by Germany
Officer of the Legion of Honor - Pronounced by France
2012
International Design and Communication Award
2003
Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters - Pronounced by France
2002
Thomas Jefferson Award - American Institute of Architects, Houston, Texas
1995
Texas Artist of the Year - Art League of Houston
1993
The Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale

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This theater archive preserves personalities occurring since the year 1920. If you have any material in your personal archives regarding the Kaunas National Drama Theater, its actors, or history, and would like to share it - please contact us, using the e-mail address spauda@dramosteatras.lt

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