Peter Sellars

As a result of the 84 festival, we had Pacific Standard Time, which was, I think, several years later, that was a region-wide arts festival.

We had an arts festival that Peter Sellers, who was the artistic director of the 84 festival, he did another one in 1987 and another one three years later.

But the thing that I want to close with, the the impact that it had over the 40 years uh it really la was was in drive on when it came to the cultural footprint we had but the festival the 84 festival put us put us in overdrive we had so many things that were spawned by that festival not least of which was air talk on on your station larry you've all you're also celebrating 40 years so i and you're a cultural icon uh i i uh You know, it is what it is.

What's done is done.

I think-

Peter Sellars, et cetera, et cetera.

Sure.

I think it has to be about both, and I think if you're going to be the National Center, you have an obligation to showcase the g- the greatest work.

People get very interested in what the traditions around it are, uh, what it should look like, how it should be performed, how the story should be unfolded, um, you know, in, in terms of a 19th century narrative.

But, you know, Violetta could, could also, as Peter Sellars once did, be dying of AIDS.

Mm-hmm.

And you could bring the opera into the 20, at that point, the 20th century, not the 21st century.

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the when, the what.

Uh, Peter Sellars obviously does not wake up in the morning without reinventing stories.

That's what Peter Sellars does.

heroes?

influence of theater ah yeah of course me personally it's not very original because they are known people but in the known there is pina bausch without hesitation peter sellars the american stage director peter brooke who died but here is patrice chéreau who died too but but otherwise the things that I like the most come from the borderline, from the band, from the outside.

There was the public caresser, a friend and comedian who has passed away now, French, who was prodigious.

It was someone who worked alone in the street.