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Peter Sellars

May 2019

  • The Los Angeles Master Chorale, and conductor Grant Gershon perform Lagrime di San Pietro

    Lagrime di San Pietro review – Sellars adds little to Lassus's austerely beautiful madrigals

    The Los Angeles Master Chorale’s performance is immaculate if sometimes self-consciously expressive in this staging by Peter Sellars of the Renaissance cycle

April 2019

  • Susan Bullock, Marie McLaughlin, Lesley Garrett and Janis Kelly, with Ashirah Foster Notice, far left, in ENO’s world premiere production of The Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel.

    The week in classical: Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel; Bach's St John Passion – review

  • Choked with pain ... Christine Rice and Roderick Williams.

    OAE/Rattle/Sellars review – commitment and focus sharpen Bach's Passion

October 2017

  • Magdalena Kozena and Christian Gerhaher in Pelléas et Mélisande, with the LSO conducted by Simon Rattle.

    Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande CD review – luxury casting and vivid performances under Rattle and Sellars

January 2017

  • Sir Simon Rattle conducting Mark-Anthony Turnage's Remembering: 'In Memoriam Evan Scofield' by London Symphony Orchestra @ Barbican Hall. (Opening 19-01-17) ©Tristram Kenton 01/17 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    LSO/Rattle; The Last Supper; Written on Skin; La traviata review – the sound of a golden age

    Mark-Anthony Turnage led the way in a notable week for British composers
  • Sir Simon Rattle And The LSO Perform Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 13: Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO perform Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre at Barbican Centre on January 13, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images for the London Symphony Orchestra)

    Le Grand Macabre review – Sellars brings muddle but Rattle, beauty

    Peter Sellars’s reading of Ligeti’s opera as a post-Chernobyl parable weakens its anarchic humour; but, under Simon Rattle, the LSO and some very fine soloists, the music is radiant
  • Roderick Williams

    Five of the best… new classical concerts
    Le Grand Macabre and The Last Supper: this week’s best UK classical concerts

    Peter Sellars and Simon Rattle collaborate and Harrison Birtwistle’s dramatic tableaux gets a rare outing. Plus: Bergen Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and BBC Symphony Orchestras

September 2016

  • As fine a Stravinsky conductor as our era possesses … Esa-Pekka Salonen

    Philharmonia/Salonen review – exemplary Stravinsky double bill

    Esa-Pekka Salonen’s readings of Oedipus Rex and the Symphony of Psalms were thrilling while Peter Sellars’s staging of the opera-oratorio was deft

March 2016

  • Davone Tines, Philippe Jaroussky and Nora Kimball-Mentzos in the Dutch National Opera;s production of Kaija Saariaho’s Only the Sound Remains, directed by Peter Sellars.

    Only the Sound Remains review – almost perversely unengaging

    Despite excellent performances from the leads Philippe Jaroussky and Davone Tines, Peter Sellars’ staging of Kaija Saariaho’s opera is inert and undramatic

January 2016

  • Nixon in China by the English National Opera at the Coliseum, London, June 2006. Right to left, Janis Kelly (Pat Nixon), James Maddalena (Richard Nixon) and Nixon in China at the Coliseum, London, June 2006. Right to left, Janis Kelly (Pat Nixon), James Maddalena (Richard Nixon) and Mark Stone (Chou En-Lai).

    From the Guardian archive
    John Adams's Nixon in China world premiere: 'a compelling, original and thought-provoking art-work'

    25 October 1987: The Observer’s Nicholas Kenyon reviews Adams’s Nixon in China at its premiere in Houston, Texas
  • Pelléas et Mélisande

    Pelléas et Mélisande review – Rattle's moving statement of intent

    Preserving the power of Debussy’s symbolist masterpiece with wonderful subtlety, Simon Rattle and Peter Sellars go headstrong into a bright future with the London Symphony Orchestra
  • Magdalena Koźená plays the doomed wife in Pelléas et Mélisande.

    Simon Rattle and Peter Sellars on Pelléas et Mélisande: 'It's as creepy as Hitchcock'

    The orchestra doubles as a forest and the heroine dies among the violins … Peter Sellars and Simon Rattle reveal how they’re taking Debussy’s dark and disturbing opera Pelléas et Mélisande to new heights

August 2015

  • Sophia Loren and Richard Burton in Il Viaggio (The Voyage), 1973

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 29 August 1974: All fuse and no bang? Sophia Loren interview

  • Performance of Desdamona (reworking of Shakespeare's Othello by Toni Morrison, directed by Peter Sellars) features Malian singer/songwriter Rokia Traore (left), Fatim Kouyate and Bintou Soumbonou (vocals) and actress Tina Benko (sitting) at the Barbican Hall, London, on 18 July 2012. Photo by Mark Allan

    Sydney festival 2016
    Peter Sellars: Shakespeare wasn’t racist, he was an 'unbelievably subtle' writer

March 2015

  • the indian queen

    The Indian Queen; Lisa Batiashvili and Paul Lewis – review

    Peter Sellars spins unfinished Purcell into a Mayan extravaganza that delights and irks

November 2014

  • the gospel according to the other mary

    The Gospel According to the Other Mary review – a mesmerising aural world

  • Banks-Artiste

    English National Opera's unlikely star revealed to be US street dancer

  • Russell Thomas and Patricia Bardon in The Gospel According to the Other Mary

    The Gospel According to the Other Mary review – the Bible to Skid Row

  • The Gospel According to the Other Mary

    Peter Sellars: ‘The United States is coming close to censorship’

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September 2014

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