IN Series to Honor Peter Sellars at May 2 Gala

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(Credit: Ruth Walz) IN Series has announced that it will honor director Peter Sellars during its 2024 Gala. The famed opera director will receive the first-ever June Jordan Award on May 2. The Award recognizes “living creative voices whose body of work reflects the poetic principles exuding the many writings, workings, wonderings of luminary poet and activist June Jordan.” Sellars {…}

Opera Meets Film

Opera Meets Film: Peter Sellars’ ‘this body is so impermanent’

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Peter Sellars warned the crowd gathered in the Rubin Museum on a recent Friday night that the film would be long. “It’s only an hour and fifteen minutes,” he said. “But the beginning feels like several lifetimes.” At first, the caution was unnecessary. “this body is so impermanent,” a new film Sellars directed at the height of the pandemic, explores {…}

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Peter Sellars To Give Keynote At Salzburg Festival

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The American director Peter Sellars will deliver the keynote address at the opening ceremony of the 2019 Salzburg Festival on July 27, 2019. Sellars will deliver a speech entitled “Listening to the Ocean: Planetary Change and Cultural Action – The meaning and urgency of ‘ecological civilization’ in the next generation.” In a press release, Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler noted, “Peter Sellars {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: El Niño

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(Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera) Metropolitan Opera debuted John Adams’s “El Niño,” with libretto based on original sources by Peter Sellars and John Adams, to a sold out house of past, present, and future opera goers on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024. “El Niño” is unlike anything John Adams has done before and the historical timing of this debut is {…}

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Benjamin Bernheim, Lisette Oropesa, Ludovic Tézier & Asmik Grigorian Lead Opéra de Paris’ 2024-25 Season

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The Opéra de Paris has announced its 2024-25 season. Opera Verdi’s “Falstaff” opens the season with a cast that includes Ambrogio Maestri, Olivia Boen, Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur, Andrei Kymach, Gregory Bonfatti, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Iván Ayón-Rivas, and Federica Guida. Michael Schønwandt conducts the production by Dominique Pitoiset. Performance Dates: Sept. 10-30, 2024 Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” will star Eleonora Buratto, Elena Stikhina, Aude {…}

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Esa-Pekka Salonen Awarded 2024 Polar Music Prize

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Esa-Pekka Salonen has been awarded the 2024 Polar Music Prize. The prize, which is a Swedish international award founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, gives one contemporary musician and one classical musician the prize. Salonen was awarded alongside Nile Rodgers. Finnish conductor and composer Salonen had his breakthrough in 1983 when he conducted Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 and as a {…}

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Renée Fleming & Will Liverman Headline Aspen Music Festival & School’s 75th Anniversary Season

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(Photo credit: Andrew Eccles & Jaclyn Simpson) The Aspen Music Festival and School has announced its 75th anniversary season. This article features vocal performances only. Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS Co-Artistic Director Renée Fleming and opera director Peter Sellars coach the program’s major emerging talents in arias and scenes. Performance Dates: June 29 & July 13, 2024 Soprano Renée Fleming, {…}

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Park Avenue Armory & Asia Society Present ‘Shall We Gather at the River’

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Park Avenue Armory, in co-commission with Asia Society, will present the world premiere of “Shall We Gather at the River” on May 21, 2024. The showcase is a musical call to action against climate change that features Black American Spirituals and Bach Cantatas. The performance is staged by Peter Sellars and features performances by Oxford Bach Soloists, Choir of Trinity {…}

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National Sawdust & The Met Opera Present ‘Opera Evolved: Genre Fluidity’

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(Photo: Jill Steinberg) National Sawdust and The Met Opera presented “Opera Evolved: Genre Fluidity” on Thursday, February 22nd, 2024. This was the second installment of this three-part series that, according to the program, celebrates artistic convergence by investigating the intersection of innovation and tradition at National Sawdust. The evening included composer and co-founder of National Sawdust, Paola Prestini, and theater {…}

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IN Series to Honor Peter Sellars at May 2 Gala

Opera Meets Film: Peter Sellars’ ‘this body is so impermanent’

Peter Sellars To Give Keynote At Salzburg Festival

Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: El Niño

Benjamin Bernheim, Lisette Oropesa, Ludovic Tézier & Asmik Grigorian Lead Opéra de Paris’ 2024-25 Season

Esa-Pekka Salonen Awarded 2024 Polar Music Prize

Renée Fleming & Will Liverman Headline Aspen Music Festival & School’s 75th Anniversary Season

Park Avenue Armory & Asia Society Present ‘Shall We Gather at the River’

National Sawdust & The Met Opera Present ‘Opera Evolved: Genre Fluidity’