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 and plays rapid scales on a (*) violin. A tilted light bar representing a bed and two judges presiding over a trial appear in the staging of this opera by Robert Wilson. An electric organ and a chorus chanting an increasing sequence of numbers perform during this opera’s first and final “knee plays.” (10[1])For 10 points, name this Philip Glass opera titled for a German physicist. ■END■ (10[1])