Biography
Robert Wilson was born in Texas in 1941. He is an internationally
acclaimed American avant-garde stage director and play-writer.
Susan Sontag has said of Wilson's work "it has the signature
of a major artistic creation. I can't think of any body of work as
large or as influential."
In 1998 Robert Wilson directed Scourge of Hyacinths, presented as part of the
official program of international celebrations commemorating the 50th Anniversary
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. After a first outing at the Munich
Biennale in 1994, the work has been slightly revised and widely acclaimed in
1998-1999 at Grand Théâtre de Geneva in Switzerland, the Opéra de Nancy et de
Lorraine in France and the St. Pölten Festspielhaus in Austria.
He has designed and directed operas at houses such as La Scala in Milan,
the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Opéra Bastille in Paris, the
Zürich Opera, the Hamburg State Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago,
and the Houston Grand Opera. He has presented innovative adaptations
of works by writers such as Virginia Woolf, Henrik Ibsen, and Gertrude
Stein. Well-known also as a visual artist, among his most recent works,
since 2004, Robert Wilson has produced dozens of high-definition videos,
collected under the title of the Voom Portraits, portraying the life and
works of people in the milieu of cinema.
Major Projects
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2007 VOOM Portraits
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2005 Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt,
- 2005 Jean de La Fontaine's The Fables
- 2004 I La Galigo
- 2002 Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten,
Opéra National de Paris (Opéra Bastille)
- 2002 Georg Büchner's Woyzeck
(with Tom Waits)
- 1998 Lohengrin for the Metropolitan Opera
- 1997 Timerocker (with
Lou Reed)
- 1992 Gertrude Stein's Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights,
Hebbel Theatre (Berlin)
- 1992 Alice (with Tom Waits and Paul Schmidt),
- 1990 The Black
Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets (with William S. Burroughs
and Tom Waits)
- 1987 Heiner Müller's Quartet
- 1984 the CIVIL warS
- 1979 Death Destruction & Detroit
- 1976 Einstein on the Beach
(with Philip Glass)
- 1974 A Letter from Queen Victoria
- 1972 KA MOUNTain and GUARDenia
Terrace
- 1971 Deafman Glance (with Raymond Andrews)
- 1969 The King of Spain
Last Major Awards
- 2005 Pratt Legends Honoree, Brooklyn, New York
- 2003 Commandeur
des Arts et des Lettres, Paris
- 2001 National Design Award, Smithsonian
Institution, New York City
- 2001Grand Prix de la Critique 1999/2000:
Meilleur Spectacle Étranger [Best Foreign Production] (Dream Play),
Syndicat
de la Critique Dramatique et Musicale, Paris
- 1999 Wilhelm
Hansen Honorable Prize, Copenhagen
- 1999Pushkin Prize, Moscow
- 1998 Harvard Excellence in Design Award,
Cambridge, US
- 1997 Tadeusz Kantor Prize Cracow, Poland
- 1997 Robert Wilson Day
(April 18), Declared by Texas State Legislature
- 1997 Premio Europa
per il Teatro, Taormina, Italy
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