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Live animals and baking bread feature in Messiaen's `Saint François d’Assise' at Salzburg Festival

Philippe Sly has taken on the challenging title role in “Saint François d’Assise” at the Salzburg Festival

The Independent UK · Aug 14

What controversy? Festival boss Peter Sellars is back

More than two decades since Peter Sellars parted ways with the Adelaide Festival, the lauded director is back - with some thoughts on saying the unsayable.

AAP · Feb 27

Fans divided as Eddie Murphy steps into beloved role in latest Pink Panther remake

Actor has been ‘in talks’ to play iconic role since 2023

The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2025

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Peter Sellars' staging of Prokofiev’s `The Gambler' is Salzburg Festival's latest offbeat success

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 director Peter Sellars

The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2024

Acclaimed video artist Bill Viola dies at 73, created landmark `Tristan und Isolde' production

Bill Viola, a video artist who combined with director Peter Sellars on a groundbreaking production of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” originally seen in Los Angeles, Paris and New York, has died at age 73

The Independent UK · Jul 14, 2024

John Adams: Antony and Cleopatra review – European premiere fuelled by molten chemistry

In his ambitious and richly orchestrated 2022 opera, the American composer makes Shakespeare his own, with a star cast to match

The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2023

Appreciation: Composers are often revered but rarely beloved. Kaija Saariaho was both

LOS ANGELES — This year's Ojai Festival began Thursday night with a tribute to Kaija Saariaho, the Finnish composer who died earlier this month. For Ojai, Steven Schick performed an ethereal percussion piece inspired by the moss garden at the Kyoto temple Saiho-ji, which is the greenest place I have…

Los Angeles Times · Jun 16, 2023

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US director Peter Sellars on making art in epic times

His directorial talents embrace opera, theatre, dance, visual arts and film. As he brings Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" to the Opera Bastille in Paris, Peter Sellars tells us about the lessons the "total work of art" has to teach us about glimpsing beauty amid the madness. This latest production incorporates…

France 24 · Jan 19, 2023

Best classical of 2022: Gustavo, Mark Morris and the CD discovery of the year

LOS ANGELES — Here we go again. Last year at this time, we looked back at our buoyancy, gingerly bouncing back from COVID-19. But 2022 became, with new surges, a boomerang year. Somehow, though, the performing arts are getting through it.

Los Angeles Times · Dec 7, 2022

The hidden world of an opera prompter

One of the world's greatest living composers, John Adams, has a new opera, and the prompter keeps Anthony and Cleopatra from flying off the rails.

WEKU · Sep 14, 2022

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