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And Peter Sellars, who adopts the multiple personas of the playright Clare Quilty, serves as the foil and conscience to Humbert. The very fact that Humbert is wholly unaware of Quilty's strange reappearances and sinister ways adds comic touches to the film and signifies his total unconsciousness of the...
WHY HASN'T JOHN ADAMS' OPERA THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER made the same sort of splash as the composer's earlier Nixon in China? The controversial subject matter -- the murder of an American Jew by Palestinian terrorists -- may be one reason, and Peter Sellars' murky staging at the premiere last...
Although the pool does not in its present form resemble a typical mainstage, the site actually does have a history of dramatic productions. The most famous of these, Peter Sellars's staging of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra," took place in the late seventies and was filmed on a barge...
Expertly conducted by Kent Nagano, the cast included such Nixon veterans -- and Sellars favorites -- as Sanford Sylvan as Klinghoffer, James Maddalena as the ship's captain and Stephanie Friedman as one of the terrorists.
Some flaws: the comic prologue seems superfluous, sandwiched as it is between the potent Palestinian and Israeli choruses. Singing in English, the Belgian chorus was unintelligible; Goodman's dense text demands supertitles. And one does miss some of Nixon's stirring climaxes. But none of this should impede Klinghoffer's...