Topic: Peter Sellars

Top JP Morgan metals exec retires, Sempra era fades

LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - JP Morgan's metals trading chief Peter Sellars, one of the last senior Sempra-era executives to remain at the bank, will retire in January, according to a memo sent to staff on Monday.Sellars, who turns 60 in ...

Toni Morrison adds twist to 'Desdemona'

0 . It began with a disagreement. Director Peter Sellars was chatting with the novelist Toni Morrison when the subject of Shakespeare's "Othello"...
(James Maddalena and Janis Kelly as Richard and Pat Nixon in the Met's Nixon in China. Photo by Ken Howard, Metropolitan Opera) The fine Canadian...

The history of the elevator

The elevator has threaded its way through the human experience, surviving our reactions to the physical, psychological and social challenges it posed for us, as it passed through our edifices through time. No-one knows who first caused a human - quite possibly not ...
The New Yorker Festival is a celebration of ideas, with provocative discussions about politics, business, film, theater, and literature. What I discovered about the New Yorker magazine's attitude toward culture was just as telling as what I learned about music.. Sasha ...

Peter Sellars

The article presents an interview with Peter Sellars, a theater and opera director. In the interview Sellars discusses a number of issues including the importance of art in everyday life, the mixture of art and politics, his sense of patriotism, his goals ...

Philip Seymour Hoffman disappoints in "Othello"

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - William Shakespeare's " Othello" has worked perfectly well onstage for more than 400 years, so it's a puzzlement as to why director Peter Sellars felt such the need to mess with it in his new production starring ...

Othello

Peter Sellars's Othello-one hesitates to call it William Shakespeare's-is a Pyrrhic victory of directorial sensibility over sense. Plunked down on a virtually blank stage-with only folding chairs, microphone stands and a vaguely hand-shaped bed of video screens-the cast of eight ...

Explosive offerings at the Met

The article reviews the concert by the Ritz Chamber Players at Montclair State University in New York City. The central character is the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who presided over the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb. The libretto" concerns ...
Dr. Atomic, the opera composed by that dynamic duo John Adams and Peter Sellars and premiered in 2005 in San Francisco, has been reworked for its premier at the Met. As a grand theme it's on par with the creation of ...