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American theatre director (born 1957)
This article is about the American director. For the British actor, see Peter Sellers. For the British-American astronaut, see Piers Sellers.
Peter Sellars
Peter Sellars at the 2011 Ojai Music Festival in Ojai, California
Born
(1957-09-27) September 27, 1957 (age 66)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality
American
Occupation(s)
Theatre director, professor
Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his unique stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he teaches Art as Social Action and Art as Moral Action. He has been described as a key figure of theatre and opera for the last 50 years.[1]
^Battle, Laura (November 7, 2014). "Peter Sellars talks about his spiritual side". www.ft.com.
PeterSellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his unique stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays...
the opera The Death of Klinghoffer originated with theatre director PeterSellars, who was a major collaborator, as was choreographer Mark Morris. It...
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world tours of The Merchant of Venice and The Persians directed by PeterSellars; House Arrest at Arena Stage; and the national tour of A Few Good Men;...
by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by PeterSellars. It premiered at the San Francisco Opera on October 1, 2005. The work...
masse and interrupted the actors' dialogue with cheers." The American PeterSellars directed an important production of The Persians at the Edinburgh Festival...
Adams House and starred in several productions by student director PeterSellars. Cantor wrote for The Village Voice about ibogaine as a cure for heroin...
"Luminaries of the theatrical avant-garde—Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson, and PeterSellars among them—describe her as first among equals". LeCompte has lectured...
Opera on October 22, 1987, in a production by PeterSellars with choreography by Mark Morris. When Sellars approached Adams with the idea for the opera...
Magdalene), her sister Martha, and her brother, Lazarus. The libretto by PeterSellars draws its texts from the Old Testament and New Testament of the Bible...
These have included Errol Morris, Peter Bogdanovich, Bertrand Tavernier, Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, PeterSellars, Stephen Sondheim, Buck Henry, and...
United, Sellars established himself in the Second Division with Blackburn Rovers where he spent six years. After three play-off heartbreaks, Sellars finally...
Klinghoffer. The concept of the opera originated with theatre director PeterSellars, who was a major collaborator, as was choreographer Mark Morris. It...
from recordings by Sellars's student Pedro Amaral. The Wilfrid Sellars Society – Homepage of the Wilfrid Sellars Society. Wilfrid Sellars L'immagine scientifica...
arts: Countdown: John Adams and PeterSellars create an atomic opera", The New Yorker (3 October 2005), 60–71. PeterSellars, Libretto for "Doctor Atomic...
original on 3 January 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2014. "Chuck Berry and PeterSellars named as Polar laureates". BBC News. 8 May 2014. Archived from the original...
Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor) and staged by PeterSellars (director). Season 1, episode 1, of the 2011 science fiction and horror...
choruses and dance genres. The symbolic aspect was emphasized visually by PeterSellars in his staging for Santa Fe Opera. Ainadamar also connects with previous...
the rock opera I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky by PeterSellars. She spent the next year traveling the world with the production, performing...
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