Robert Wilson
Know for: Directing
Born: 1941-10-04
Place of birth: Waco, Texas, USA
Also know as:
La mort de Molière (1994)
A collaboration in which Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller let Molière die, imagine his death in tableaux with text passages recited by...
Video 50 (1978)
Produced in an era before 24-hour programming cycles, Video 50 was initially used as a late night filler on TV stations in Germany, France, Belgium,...
Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera (1985)
The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents...
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious (2022)
We look back at more than half a century of mysterious artistic creation while trying to crack a unique artistic code. Why are people moved to tears...
BAM150 (2012)
A captivating history of the nation's oldest performing arts center - which largely mirrors the evolution of experimental and progressive performing...
Absolute Wilson (2006)
Documentary from Katharina Otto pays homage to famed stage designer Robert Wilson, who overcame childhood learning disabilities growing up in Waco,...
Do Not Be Anxious — Be Fast And Be Quiet (2010)
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007)
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...
The Lost Paradise (2015)
He is the most performed contemporary composer in the world. And yet he rarely ventures out in public, prefers to keep quiet about his music, feels...
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens (2007)
An account of the professional and personal life of renowned American photographer Annie Leibovitz, from her early artistic endeavors to her...
Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic (2012)
This hourlong semi-documentary records the musical stage collaboration between director Robert Wilson and veteran performance artist Marina...
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars (1987)
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt to stage an epic, twelve-hour, multinational...
The Art of Time (2009)
Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...
Verdi: La Traviata (2016)
Giuseppe Verdi based his famous opera on the novel “The Lady of the Camellias” by Alexandre Dumas. Robert Wilson’s production of...
Verdi: La Traviata (2016)
Giuseppe Verdi based his famous opera on the novel “The Lady of the Camellias” by Alexandre Dumas. Robert Wilson’s production of...
Verdi: La Traviata (2016)
Giuseppe Verdi based his famous opera on the novel “The Lady of the Camellias” by Alexandre Dumas. Robert Wilson’s production of...
A Winter Fable (2017)
A Winter Fable is a story told by the triptych of video portraits of a wolf, a fox, and a lamb with a score that is composed of music by Coco Rosie,...
A Winter Fable (2017)
A Winter Fable is a story told by the triptych of video portraits of a wolf, a fox, and a lamb with a score that is composed of music by Coco Rosie,...
Video 50 (1978)
Produced in an era before 24-hour programming cycles, Video 50 was initially used as a late night filler on TV stations in Germany, France, Belgium,...
Alceste (1999)
John Eliot Gardiner conducts Gluck’s 1776 French version of “Alceste” at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris....
Deafman Glance (1981)
A somber, menacing woman washes white dishes and a gleaming carving knife, pours milk into a glass, and then slowly attacks first one young boy and...
Einstein on the Beach (2014)
This seminal work of avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson arrives full-circle, coming to France, the site of its...
Einstein on the Beach (2014)
This seminal work of avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson arrives full-circle, coming to France, the site of its...
Shakespeare’s Sonnets (2009)
US stage director Robert Wilson has teamed up with pop star Rufus Wainwright to bring Shakespeare’s sonnets to the stage in Berlin. Debuting on...
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2012)
Debussy's masterpiece, for the first time conducted by the Paris Opera's music director Philippe Jordan, in the fairy staging by Robert Wilson. When...
Adam's Passion (2015)
Adam’s Passion is the moving first collaboration between two “masters of slow motion who harmonize perfectly with each other”...
La mort de Molière (1994)
A collaboration in which Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller let Molière die, imagine his death in tableaux with text passages recited by...
La mort de Molière (1994)
A collaboration in which Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller let Molière die, imagine his death in tableaux with text passages recited by...
Deafman Glance (1981)
A somber, menacing woman washes white dishes and a gleaming carving knife, pours milk into a glass, and then slowly attacks first one young boy and...
The Black Rider (1990)
Inspired by the German folktale, Wilhelm, a file clerk, falls in love with a huntsman's daughter. In order to marry, Wilhelm must prove his worth as...
The Black Rider (1990)
Inspired by the German folktale, Wilhelm, a file clerk, falls in love with a huntsman's daughter. In order to marry, Wilhelm must prove his worth as...
The Black Rider (1990)
Inspired by the German folktale, Wilhelm, a file clerk, falls in love with a huntsman's daughter. In order to marry, Wilhelm must prove his worth as...
Adam's Passion (2015)
Adam’s Passion is the moving first collaboration between two “masters of slow motion who harmonize perfectly with each other”...
Video 50 (1978)
Produced in an era before 24-hour programming cycles, Video 50 was initially used as a late night filler on TV stations in Germany, France, Belgium,...
Voom Portraits (2007)
Iconic artist and theater director Robert Wilson has created a series of video portraits of celebrities, ordinary people and animals called "VOOM...
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2012)
Debussy's masterpiece, for the first time conducted by the Paris Opera's music director Philippe Jordan, in the fairy staging by Robert Wilson. When...
Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice (2000)
Film recording of Robert Wilson’s stage production of the opera by Gluck. John Eliot Gardiner conducts Berlioz’s 1859 revision of...
L'Orfeo (2009)
Rinaldo Alessandrini, one of the most eminent baroque and pre-baroque music specialist, conducts Monteverdi's Orfeo, performed by singers who have...
L'Orfeo (2009)
Rinaldo Alessandrini, one of the most eminent baroque and pre-baroque music specialist, conducts Monteverdi's Orfeo, performed by singers who have...
L'Orfeo (2009)
Rinaldo Alessandrini, one of the most eminent baroque and pre-baroque music specialist, conducts Monteverdi's Orfeo, performed by singers who have...
Händel / Mozart: Der Messias (2020)
Known as a creator of astonishing images, stage director and visual artist Robert Wilson delivers a magnificent production of Mozart’s adaption...
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars (1987)
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt to stage an epic, twelve-hour, multinational...
Stations (1982)
Stations is an enigmatic, hauntingly vivid work, in which Wilson envisions the daydreams and fantasies of an eleven-year-old boy as a universe both...
Shakespeare’s Sonnets (2009)
US stage director Robert Wilson has teamed up with pop star Rufus Wainwright to bring Shakespeare’s sonnets to the stage in Berlin. Debuting on...
Shakespeare’s Sonnets (2009)
US stage director Robert Wilson has teamed up with pop star Rufus Wainwright to bring Shakespeare’s sonnets to the stage in Berlin. Debuting on...
Le Trouvère (2019)
"This is a family tragedy, and in many ways, it is a very contemporary story." This is how Robert Wilson described Il trovatore, or Le...
Turandot (2020)
After twenty years of absence, Puccini’s Turandot was revived on the stage of the Teatro Real in a new production by American stage director...
Turandot (2020)
After twenty years of absence, Puccini’s Turandot was revived on the stage of the Teatro Real in a new production by American stage director...
Turandot (2020)
After twenty years of absence, Puccini’s Turandot was revived on the stage of the Teatro Real in a new production by American stage director...