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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...
former blaxploitation stars. In 1980, opera director PeterSellars (not to be confused with actor Peter Sellers) produced and directed a staging of Mozart's...
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;...
Sellars is a surname, and may refer to Bill Sellars (1925–2018), British television producer Billy Sellars (1907–1987), English footballer Doug Sellars...
masse and interrupted the actors' dialogue with cheers." The American PeterSellars directed an important production of The Persians at the Edinburgh Festival...
by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by PeterSellars. It premiered at the San Francisco Opera on October 1, 2005. The work...
"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...
Klinghoffer. The concept of the opera originated with theatre director PeterSellars, who was a major collaborator, as was choreographer Mark Morris. It...
Macdonald Sellars (6 May 1921 – 30 December 2019) was a Scottish actress. Sellars was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Stephen Sellars and Jean...
These have included Errol Morris, Peter Bogdanovich, Bertrand Tavernier, Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, PeterSellars, Stephen Sondheim, Buck Henry, and...
Adams House and starred in several productions by student director PeterSellars. Cantor wrote for The Village Voice about ibogaine as a cure for heroin...
arts: Countdown: John Adams and PeterSellars create an atomic opera", The New Yorker (3 October 2005), 60–71. PeterSellars, Libretto for "Doctor Atomic...
embarked on The Tristan Project. At the invitation of opera director PeterSellars, he created video sequences to be shown as a backdrop to the action...
American culture in the 1970s." In 1981, Warhol worked on a project with PeterSellars and Lewis Allen that would create a traveling stage show called, A No...
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...
from recordings by Sellars's student Pedro Amaral. The Wilfrid Sellars Society – Homepage of the Wilfrid Sellars Society. Wilfrid Sellars L'immagine scientifica...
Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle and directed by PeterSellars. He sang Messiah at Carnegie Hall in 2009. Costanzo appeared in the...
Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor) and staged by PeterSellars (director). Season 1, episode 1, of the 2011 science fiction and horror...
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