Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, where he teaches Art as Social Action and Art as Moral Action.
Just skip to the 2:47 mark to see the muscle meat.
Sellars subsequently staged a series of Mozart's operas, Cosi Fan Tutte (set in a diner on Cape Cod), The Marriage of Figaro (set in a luxury apartment in New York City's Trump Tower), and Don Giovanni (set in New York City's Spanish Harlem, cast and costumed as a blaxploitation movie), in collaboration with Emmanuel Music and its Artistic Director, Craig Smith. The productions were met with great critical acclaim, recorded in Austria by ORF in 1989, subsequently televised by PBS, and later revived at MC93 Bobigny (Paris) and the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona).
5 comments:
Not a fan of opera, but I'll watch this guy in anything. He's very sexy - even in tighty-whities.
Dude, I forgot the most important part. They are TWINS! Eugene and Herbert Perry are Identical Twins. They are both cast in the play. Both muscle hotties that sing opera.
I've always been fascinated with Sellars staging. I've seen the entire "Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy" on DVD and must say that he did bring something fresh and new to the boring traditional opera staging that we were used to.
Did you see his staging of John Adams' Doctor Atomic. Another masterpiece.
And yes, The Perry Twins were a very good reason in itself to watch the Don Giovanni!! ;)
double the pleasure
Deep Blue, I don't know much about Opera. I saw this on PBS once, about a decade ago. And I was transfixed on the Perry Twins. All these years, it never left my memory.
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