The Threepenny Opera: Drawings

Robert Wilson has been honored for his visionary work with the Golden Lion for sculpture from the Venice Biennale, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for Lifetime Achievement, the Premio Europa Award from Taormina Arte, a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, the National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement, and as Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French government. For more than three decades he has created a new vocabulary for theatre and opera, starting with early pieces such as Deafman Glance, The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin, and Death Destruction and Detroit. His Einstein on the Beach, written with composer Philip Glass, is a landmark in twentieth-century opera. Wilson has also staged Parsifal, The Magic Flute, Madame Butterfly, and Lohengrin at La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, and Opera Bastille. He has collaborated with many artists, including Heiner Müller, Allen Ginsberg, Lou Reed, Susan Sontag, Tom Waits, William Burroughs, and David Byrne, on numerous music and dramatic works for the stage, in addition to classic texts of Flaubert, Ibsen, Strindberg, and Gertrude Stein. His production of Fables de la Fontaine, with the Comédie Française, was recently seen at the Lincoln Center Festival 2007. Major exhibitions of his work have been shown at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; and the Instituto Valencia de Arte Moderno.