Word: sellarsization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The name Peter Sellers has undergone something of the same transformation. The late movie comedian was a hero of sorts, forever skirmishing with a legion of enemies of the quizzical stare and the faraway gaze. And now his near-namesake, Peter Sellars '80, has devised a monumental gesture to commercial...
When Handel composed Orlando in 1732, based on the Ariosto saga, his cast of characters consisted of the hero of the title, the Queen of Cathay, an African prince, a shepherdess, and a magician. The setting was simply a nameless forest. "Handel's audience didn't need to be told...
But much of Orlando's appeal lies in the sheer playfulness with which Sellars has approached it. Where the original staging calls for Zoroastro the magician to conjure up a fountain to hide a furtive lover, Sellar's project supervisor summons up a drinking fountain, from which Angelica casually takes...
Above all, Sellars's updating never interferes with the music. In fact, many of his innovations involve clever exploitation of the Handel score. The bouncy rhythms of Dorinda's first-act aria on the ineffable nature of love--she's the beach bunny, nee shepherdess--become the excuse for an...
FOUR YEARS and seven productions later. Harvard audiences can bear out Bellucci's words: the sight of him with a clean face and street-clothes is more startling than any make-up and costume. In elevators and dining halls, he is greeted by stares of hazy recognition and far-off...