29 Feb 2020

Peter Sellars: genre-defying director stages Canadian opera

From Saturday Morning, 11:43 am on 29 February 2020
Peter Sellars

Peter Sellars Photo: supplied / Ruth Walz

Peter Sellars is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays.

Sellars is professor at UCLA, where he teaches Art as Social Action and Art as Moral Action.

He is directing the rarely staged opera Kopernikus (by the Québécois composer Claude Vivier) at the New Zealand Festival of The Arts. He's also been involved in Te Ata and Talanoa Mau and helped bring the flex dance group FLEXN to Porirua.

He also directs a choral work Lagrime di San Pietro at the Auckland Arts Festival.

Kopernikus – Opéra-rituel de mort

Kopernikus – Opéra-rituel de mort Photo: supplied /Vincent Pontet