Einstein on the Beach in Los Angeles

Einstein on the Beach arrived at Los Angeles's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion last week like a beatific visitation from another realm. With its creative team reunited for what is likely their last artistic tweaking of the iconic work, the production was an authentic, if slightly trimmed, facsimile of the original version. Its rapturous welcome nearly four decades after its premiere begged the question of why it had taken so long to get here. Philip Glass's path-blazing first opera, co-created with di...