Movies

The story of Willard from Ashley's opera Atalanta, recounted in 3 parts.

Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing...

This work is Woody's first entry into the narrative sphere, whereby the "story" is continually undermined with the aid of various anti-narrative...

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway.

In 1975 the composer Robert Ashley embarked on an ambitious work titled Music With Roots in the Aether. He called it an Opera (or piece of theater...

Buried inside the epic American opera for television, “Perfect Lives” are the boogie-woogie lessons being sold by Buddy to untalented...

A new production of Robert Ashley's 1991 opera, "Improvement (Don Leaves Linda," featuring Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinto,...

A girl wanders through an abandoned farmhouse; doors open and close of themselves; when the girl finds a mark over a lipstick circle she had made on...

Originally a vocal performance on the album Automatic Writing.