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Einstein
 on the Beach: CREDITS

    
MUSIC BY PHILIP GLASS
Opera in four acts based on a concept by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass
Texts: Christopher Knowles, Samuel M. Johnson and Lucinda Childs

For reasons of format, the following movements have been omitted from this version:
“Trial” (except the final part ‘All Men Are Equal’), “Dance 1” and “Bed”.

Digital album on BandCamp

CD 1
Knee 1
Train
All Men Are Equal
Knee 2
Night Train
Knee 3

CD 2
Trial/Prison
Dance 2
Knee 4
Building
Spaceship
Knee 5

Narrator: Suzanne Vega
Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent
Instrumental ensemble: Ictus
Conductor: Tom De Cock
Assistant conductor: Michael Schmid
Choir master: Maria van Nieukerken

Concert version at Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
November 27th, 2022
Recorded live by Alexandre Fostier,
assisted by Antoine Delagoutte

Mixed by Raphaël Hénard,
assisted by Jean-Luc Plouvier
Editing and artistic coordination: Michael Schmid
Technical advice: Alexandre Fostier
Mastered by Frédéric Alstadt

Design by Krysztoff Doiron
Print by Marijke Loozen
Executive production by Thomas Van de Velde for VLEK
     

COLLEGIUM VOCALE GENT

Sopranos
Joowon Chung
Magdalena Podkościelna
Elisabeth Rapp++
Charlotte Schoeters

Altos
Ursula Ebner
Karolina Hartman°°
Gudrun Köllner
Cécile Pilorger

Tenors
Peter di Toro
Thomas Köll
Tom Phillips

Basses
Philipp Kaven
Martin Schicketanz
Bart Vandewege

++soloist in Spaceship
°°soloist in Knee 2
     

ICTUS

Violin: Igor Semenoff
Flute and piccolo: Chryssi Dimitriou
Flute: Michael Schmid
Bass clarinet, soprano saxophone: Dirk Descheemaeker
Alto and soprano saxophones: Nele Tiebout
Keyboards: Jean-Luc Fafchamps and Jean-Luc Plouvier
     

PRODUCTION

EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH, the performance
was produced by Ictus & Collegium Vocale Gent,
co-produced by Concertgebouw Brugge
with the support of Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government

EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH, the CD
is produced by Ictus and Vlek,
co-produced by Collegium vocale Gent.
©Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc. Used by permission.

Behind the stage
Scenography: Germaine Kruip
Scenography assistant: Maxime Fauconnier
Live sound engineer: Alexandre Fostier,
assisted by Antoine Delagoutte
Light assistant: Nicolas Marc
Costume: Anne-Catherine Kunz
Production: Pieter Nys

Texts by
Maarten Beirens and Jean-Luc Plouvier

Thanks to
Maxime Denuc, Guy Gypens, Asagi Ito, Guillaume Kosmicki, Sandrine Maricot Despretz,
Quentin Meurisse, Georges-Elie Octors, Bert Schreurs, Jeroen Vanacker

In memoriam Hitoshi Tamada

Supported by Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles ⓒⓟ, VLEK records ⓒⓟ, 2025
Ictus and Collegium Vocale Gent are supported by the Flemish Government