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Peter Sellars

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American theatre director (born 1957)

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  • Getting real
  • Said on Opera
  • Kosmopolitische Impulse
  • Peter Sellars
  • Entangled

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Person
Country
US
Active from
1957-09-27

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Total plays
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Quotes

  • Nobody can predict the future, but there is nobody in my generation who wants to be on the board of a symphony orchestra or an opera company and raise the kind of money that's needed. I think that the energy that in the 19th century went into opera is, in the 20th century, going into films. Films have that same over-the-top, overwhelming, high impact--all of the senses knocked out--and vast popular following, with stars who are larger than life. Well, that's what opera did in the 19th century.
  • I think of the classical world as a cancer patient or an AIDS patient. You know you have a limited life span. The question you now might want to ask is what would be the most important things to do now with your remaining years. I would like to think that that type of prioritizing could happen with museums, symphony orchestras, opera companies. Things really are urgent right now, and what we're doing somehow has to matter, has to make a contribution.

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Peter Sellars
date of birth
1957-09-27
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