Artists from different cultural traditions adapted an ancient tale to explore how to respond to betrayal and exploitation. By Laura van Straaten The director, one of the most influential in opera, is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. theatre director Peter Sellars reacts as he receives the Swedish Polar Music Prize at a ceremony in Stockholm August 26, 2014 ...

Peter Sellars, the noted opera and theatre director, will appear on our Radical Opera panel on Sunday, October 18th. In 2005, Alex Ross wrote that Sellars “speaks better than most writers write, ...

Director Peter Sellars has established a reputation for staging classical plays and operas in contemporary settings, from Shakespeare’s "Othello" to Mozart’s "The Marriage of Figaro." He's also ...

Director Peter Sellars has won a special award along with four of the world’s best singers. On Sunday, the prestigious Opera News Awards went to the American theater whiz, and to Russian baritone ...

The last time Peter Sellars tackled Othello his efforts weren’t particularly appreciated. Some audience members left at intermission, critics panned it. The New York Times called it “exasperatingly ...

SALZBURG, Austria — Offbeat operas have been some of the Salzburg Festival’s best in recent years, the latest a colorful, outlandish and entertaining staging of Sergei Prokofiev’s “The Gambler” by ...

During a recent SongFest public master class, the director Peter Sellars was coaching Mishael Eusebio, a poised tenor who told Sellars to call him Mish and brought confident emotion to Aaron Copland’s ...

Throughout his career, Peter Sellars has — be it in opera, theater, teaching or the director’s innumerable talks and interviews — demonstrated how whatever is at hand might serve to make ourselves ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Peter Sellars's new opera opens with a drug addict banging her head against the bars of a prison cell in what the American director says conceptualises a woman's version of the ...