The success of this opera’s premiere was credited to Michel Guy (“GEE”) in the autobiography Words Without Music, which describes this opera’s penultimate scene as “apocalyptic.” In a scene from this opera, a woman walks onstage reading a book while a man in a window makes sweeping hand gestures. In the original Avignon production of this opera, Robert Brown portrayed a character who sits in a chair (15[1])and plays rapid scales on a (*) violin. (10[1])A tilted light bar representing a bed and two judges (10[2])presiding (10[1])over (10[1])a trial (10[1])appear (10[1])in the staging of this opera by Robert Wilson. (10[2])An electric organ and a chorus (10[1])chanting an increasing (10[1])sequence of numbers perform (10[3]-5[1])during this opera’s (10[1])first (10[2])and final (10[1])“knee (10[1])plays.” (10[6])For 10 points, (-5[1])name this Philip Glass opera (10[2])titled for a German physicist. (10[1])■END■ (10[4])