Peter Sellars is one of today’s most innovative theater and opera directors. From his daring early work, including a famous / infamous Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy, which included a “Don Giovanni” set in East Harlem and a “Nozze di Figaro” in Trump Tower, to his groundbreaking Salzburg production of Messiaen’s “Saint François d’Assise” and through to his “ritualizations” of Bach Passions with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh native is one of the most versatile and influential directors alive.
Fresh off his production of “Castor et Pollux”—with Teodor Currentzis and his Utopia orchestra and chorus, at the Opéra de Paris—Sellars passed through Berlin in mid-February to supervise “The Indian Queen,” an earlier collaboration with Currentzis, at the Philharmonie. While in town, he sat down with me for a wide-ranging interview.
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