Robert Wilson's works integrates a wide variety of artistic media, combining movement, dance, painting, lighting, sculpture, music and text into a unified whole. His opera Einstein on the Beach, written with composer Philip Glass, achieved worldwide acclaim and altered conventional perceptions of opera. Other landmark productions include the epic the CIVIL warS, Salome at La Scala, Parsifal in Hamburg and Houston, The Magic Flute and Madama Butterfly in Paris and Lohengrin at the Metropolitan Opera. For the Zurich Opera, he staged Wagner's Ring Cycle, which he revisits this season in Paris. Extensive retrospectives of Wilson's drawings, furniture designs and installations have been presented at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Wilson has also mounted installations for Giorgio Armani at the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao. Recent and upcoming productions include Les Fables at the Comédie Française, I La Galigo at the Singapore Festival, Madama Butterfly in Los Angeles, The Magic Flute and Pelléas et Mélisande in Paris and The Black Rider in London and Los Angeles. Each summer Wilson develops new work at the Watermill Center, a theater laboratory in Long Island which brings together students and experienced professionals in an environment dedicated to creative collaboration.