ABSTRACT
1 Thinking back to last night’s performance, I don’t think there’s any other work that so successfully captures what it felt like to live on the cusp of the digital age, an accelerated world in which ideas about time and space are constantly revised. But Einstein is a piece whose essential elements are more fixed than some of your other operas, where producers can influence how the work is expressed visually. This seems fitting; we want to see it as it was originally conceived. But I was wondering, what it means for an avant-garde piece to be revisited in this way.
