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Nixon Gets a Facelift

George Heymont | Posted 09.17.2012 | Arts
Read More: Mao Tse-Tung, Peter Sellars, Vancouver Opera, Henry Kissinger, Sean Nieuwenhuis, Erhard Rom, Alice Goodman, Richard Nixon, Brian Mulligan, John Adams, Michael Cavanagh, Nixon in China, Houston Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera, Chou en-Lai, Video, Arts News
George Heymont

Although I attended the 1987 world premiere of Nixon in China (and saw subsequent performances in 1988 and 1990), last month marked the first time I had seen Nixon in China in 22 years. A lot has happened in the interim.

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Controversial Director Wins Prestigious Opera Award

AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 06.30.2012 | Home
Read More: Peter Sellars, Peter Sellars Opera News Awards, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Opera, Opera News Awards 2012, Anja Silja, Karita Mattila, Opera News Awards, Peter Mattei, Video, Home News

NEW YORK — Director Peter Sellars has won a special award along with four of the world's best singers. On Sunday, the prestigious Opera News Aw...

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Honoring Ernest Fleischmann, Legendary Impresario

Barbara Isenberg | Posted 05.28.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Peter Sellars, Pierre Boulez, Deborah Borda, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ernest Fleischmann, Hollywood Bowl, Gustavo Dudamel, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Los Angeles News
Barbara Isenberg

With one music director after another, Fleischmann extended the orchestra's reach musically, financially and geographically.

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REVIEW: Peter Sellars Takes Handel To Iraq With Lyric Opera's 'Hercules'

AP | By MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Peter Sellars, Hercules Adaptation, Handel, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Culture, Chicago Around Town, Lyric Opera, Hercules, Chicago News

CHICAGO -- A musical drama that deals with jealousy, despair, madness and death, Handel's "Hercules" was a resounding flop when first presented in 174...

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Performance Spotlight: 'Nixon In China' At Metropolitan Opera

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: The Metropolitan Opera, Composer John Adams, Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, Slidepollajax, Metropolitan-Opera-Nixon-in-China, Nixon-in-China-Opera, Richard Nixon, John Adams, Nixon in China, Peter Sellars, Video, Arts News

WHO: John Adams, composer/conductor; Peter Sellars, director; Kathleen Kim as Madame Mao; Janis Kelly as Pat Nixon; Robert Brubaker as Chairman Mao; J...

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On The Imprisonment of Iranian Filmmakers: A Moral Option For Iran and Any Government Presuming to Silence Its Artists

Michael Vazquez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Cinémathèques, Zhang Yimou, World Cinema, Beijing Olympics, The Circle, Czechoslovakia, The Shop on Main Street, The Color of Pomegranates, United States, Mohammad Rasoulof, Farideh Gheirat, Milos Sethlik, Soviet Union, China, Michael Vazquez, Sergei Paradjanov, Cannes Film Festival, Peter Sellars, Translators Wanted, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Crimson Gold, Russia, To Live, Facets.org, White Balloon, Jan Kadar, Persia, Jafar Panahi, Offside, The Twilight, Egypt, Alexandria, Jordan, Tunisia, Morocco, Hosni Mubarak, Yemen, Cairo, Algeria, Arts News
Michael Vazquez

I've asked film curator Milos Stehlik, of Chicago's Facets.org to write a guest essay in the earnest service of furnishing a dually historical and mor...

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Transgender Artists Help Make Transformative Art

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Michael Jackson, Jack Byrne, Hemaphrodite, Lgbt, Rebecca Swan, Felicity Huffman, Tanwarin Sukkhapisit, Rita Hayworth, Transamerica, Maria Callas, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Kirsty MacDonald, Nelson Mandela, Zackie Achmat, Maori, Frederic Delius, Ema Lyon, National Film Board of Thailand, Gertrude Stein, David Wall, Simon Knoli, Assume Nothing, Robert Mapplethorpe, Prodigal Sons, Fig Trees, Four Saints in Three Acts, Drag King, Orson Welles, Drag Queen, Fennimore and Gerda, Tim McCaskell, Virgil Thomsen, John Greyson, Shigeyuki Kihara, Die Tote Stadt, Insects in the Back Yard, Gugu Diamini, Eric Wolfgang Korngold, Peter Sellars, New York City Opera, Transgender, AIDS Activism, Mani Bruce Mitchell, Kimberly Reed, St. Theresa of Avila, Oja Kodar, Stephen Lewis, Video, Arts News
George Heymont

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More Nostalgia!

Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Art Institute of Chicago, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, James Cuno, Handel, Chicago Public Library, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Peter Sellars, Chicago News
Brian Dickie

Director Peter Sellars is a visionary, an enlightening educator, and a man of peace. And of course he can also be the court jester. He displayed all the above, and a good more besides, this evening.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman's Othello Ravaged: Audiences Leaving At Intermission

nypost.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Peter Sellars, Theater, Othello, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Entertainment News

It's not just critics who hate Peter Sellars' production of "Othello" starring Philip Seymour Hoffman at NYU's Skirball Center. Audiences hate it too,...

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What One Learns from Politicos Who Watch Movies...

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: The Week, Ed Markey, Andrea Mitchell, Andrew Sullivan, Seven Days in May, Team America World Police, Jane Harman, Christopher Dodd, Being There, Citizen Kane, Chris Matthews, Movies, Dr. Strangelove, The Candidate, Peter Sellars, Susan Collins, John Sununu, Margaret Carlson, A Man for All Seasons, George Vradenburg, Phillips Collection, Thelma and Louise, Alan Greenspan, Bob Schieffer, Entertainment News
Steve Clemons

Lindsey Graham hosted a movie night a couple of years ago and his selection was Seven Days in May. Other hosts were Jane Harman and Susan Collins who picked Thelma and Louise.

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Culture Zohn: Doctor Atomic: Opera Goes Nuclear

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Doctor Atomic, Peter Sellars, Los Alamos, Satyagraha, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Nuclear Energy, John Adams, Metroplitan Opera, Nuclear Bombs, Penny Woolcock, Alan Gilbert, Philip Glass, Entertainment News
Patricia Zohn

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