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8 unusual facts about Peter Sellars


Arnold Schoenberg Choir

Moreover it has performed in opera productions such as Schubert's Fierrabras at the Vienna State Opera, Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise and Berio's Cronaca del luogo at the Salzburg Festival and videos of three operas of Mozart with the producer Peter Sellars.

George Tsypin

Tsypin has worked for many years with renowned directors and composers, such as Julie Taymor, Peter Sellars, Francesca Zambello, Pierre Audi, Jurgen Flimm, Philip Glass, John Adams, Kaija Saariaho and Andrey Konchalovsky.

Grant Gershon

He conducted the world premiere of John Adams opera/theatre piece, I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, directed by Peter Sellars.

Holy Sonnets

The history of the Trinity test, and the stress and anxiety of the Manhattan Project's workers in the preparations for the test was the focus of the 2005 opera Doctor Atomic by contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars.

Lemi Ponifasio

Requiem (2006) was commissioned by Artistic Director Peter Sellars for the New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna, celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart.

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

Her professional career as a singer began in 1984, and in 1985 she made her operatic debut after meeting Peter Sellars and appearing in his 1985 production of Handel's Giulio Cesare.

Sanford Sylvan

A frequent collaborator with the director Peter Sellars, he appeared in Sellars' re-imaginings of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte and Le nozze di Figaro, aforementioned operas of John Adams and, in 2009, Adams's A Flowering Tree presented at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival.

Ysanne Spevack

In 2003, Spevack was invited to perform electric violin for Peter Sellars at the Venice Biennale.


Anjul Nigam

In theater, Nigam has appeared alongside fellow-NYU alumni Philip Seymour Hoffman in the controversial production of the Peter Sellars' directed The Merchant of Venice at the Royal Shakespeare Company in London and The Goodman Theatre in Chicago.

Ruhrtriennale

Amongst the artists who have appeared at the festival are Ariane Mnouchkine, Peter Brook, Bill Viola, Patrice Chéreau, Ilya Kabakov, Peter Sellars, Christian Boltanski, Bill Frisell, Patti Smith, Elvis Costello, Akram Khan (dancer), Cecilia Bartoli and Thomas Hampson.

Syndromes and a Century

The film was among the works commissioned for Peter Sellars' New Crowned Hope festival in Vienna to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Was Clara Schumann a Fag Hag?

Rather than be determined by conventional career moves, he was energised by his collaborations with the Great Originals described within the two volumes of his autobiography, such as those with Joan Littlewood, Tony Richardson, Peter Sellars, Franco Zeffirelli, Daniel Barenboim, Peter Brook and Terence Donovan, whose spirit and energy infused his every day.


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