Summary
Jill Battson I For The New Mexican
If you think you don't understand or even like opera, 30 minutes in the company of the strange and wonderful Peter Sellars will change all that. Sellars, who is the director of Adriana Mater, packs so much into a short conversation that he is like an impassioned runaway train.See the full content of this document
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Mommy, Where Do Operas Come From?
Loathed, loved, denounced, and celebrated over the course of his 30-plus- year career in opera, Sellars is something like the embodiment of Mozart -- passion, humor, and focus bubble out of him in a fabulous display of
joie de vivre. Sellars eschews a handshake for a hearty hug, and that gesture sums him up. Here's an excerpt from Pasa's 30 minutes with him.Pasatiempo: You have been called the enfant terrible of opera.Peter Sellars: I'm a bit long in the tooth for that! I was really fortunate, because I got to start very young. I started apprenticing at a marionette theater when I was 10. So I was really working professionally when I was a kid. One of the great things that I wanted early on, when I was exposed...See the full content of this document
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