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Liz Hobday

What controversy? Festival boss Peter Sellars is back

Former Adelaide Festival director Peter Sellars is returning to the event to helm two shows. (HANDOUT/ADELAIDE FESTIVAL)

It's almost a quarter of a century since US director Peter Sellars helmed one of Australia's biggest arts festivals - and departed in a storm of controversy.

The acclaimed director has finally returned to the Adelaide Festival with two shows, Perle Noire: Meditations for Josephine and El Nino: Nativity Reconsidered, his opera written with composer John Adams.

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