Renowned American theater director, scenographer, playwright, and artist Robert Wilson has passed away at the age of 84. His artistic contributions, spanning stage productions, works on paper, sculptures, and video portraits, will continue to be preserved at The Watermill Center as his enduring legacy. Commemorative events, meaningful to Wilson, are planned for the near future and will be reported on afterward. Wilson’s life spanned from 1941 to 2025.
The Lithuanian National opera and Ballet Theater (LNOBT) also expressed its condolences, announcing Wilson’s death on Facebook.The theater highlighted his impactful presence on its stage, noting his direction of J.S. Bach’s “Passion by John” in 2007 and G. Puccini’s “Turandot” in 2019. Wilson had recently returned to the LNOBT to work on a new opera for its stage, continuing his creative endeavors until his passing.
Wilson, a prominent figure in the theater world for over five decades, was a familiar and celebrated artist to the Lithuanian audience.His 2018 production of Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater in Vilnius garnered significant attention for its unconventional direction. More recently, in October 2022, the Kaunas National drama theater staged Wilson’s “Dorian,” an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel, which featured his signature light design. Looking ahead, the Kaunas National Drama Theater is slated to present another of Wilson’s works, “Seven Solitis. five Acts,” based on the writings of Lithuanian author Oscar Milos, in 2026.
