Robert Ashley  American contemporary music, holds an international reputation for his work in new forms of opera and multi-disciplinary projects. His recorded works are acknowledged classics of language in a musical setting. He pioneered opera-for-television. The operatic works of Robert Ashley are...

Robert Ashley interview- Perfect Sound Forever  American operas for television. Other artists such as Meredith Monk, Robert Wilson and John Adams have brought their theatrical work to the stage for years but none of them have decided that TV should be their prime medium. It may...

Thomas Moore's Robert Ashley Interview  Ashley in conversation with Thomas Moore Robert Ashley and I spoke on 25 October 1981 in Washington, D.C. the morning after a performance of parts 4 through 7 of his opera Perfect Lives (Private Parts now simply called Perfect Lives....

James Wierzbicki Robert Ashley  C and irrational entertainment is how Samuel Johnson so famously defined opera in his 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. Opera is a play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures...