Peter Sellars News

The Metropolitan Opera Guild honors Thomas Hampson, one of today's foremost singers, with a new installment in its "Mastersingers" series.

MCC Theater has announced the complete cast for the newly reworked and fully re-imagined production of Carrie, the musical. Carrie features music by Michael Gore, lyrics by Dean Pitchford (Academy Award winning composer and lyricist for the original film Fame) and a book by Lawrence D. Cohen (who also adapted the 1974 novel by Stephen King for the 1976 Brian DePalma film). Directed by Stafford Arima, performances for Carrie begin January 31, 2012, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, NYC). The official opening night is set for March 1, 2012.

Lincoln Center's upcoming White Light Festival (October 20-November 19, 2011), in its second season, will include two outstanding theater productions among the range of works of music, film, dance, art and discussion to be presented.

Gary Naylor revels in a joyous evening in North London.

Anish Kapoor, Brian Eno, and Peters Sellars are among the artists scheduled to participate in a series of public programs dedicated to the arts and creative collaboration in New York City this fall.

London 2012 today launched the programme for the London 2012 Festival, a spectacular 12-week nationwide celebration bringing together leading artists from across the world with the very best from the UK, opening on Midsummer's Day 21 June and running until 9 September 2012.

The Metropolitan Opera Guild pays tribute to the legendary American mezzo-soprano, Marilyn Horne, on Monday, October 31

Los Angeles Philharmonic Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale and soloists in the world premiere of the PROLOGUE TO ORANGO, Shostakovich's unfinished opera, at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Friday and Saturday, December 2 and 3, at 8 p.m., as well as Sunday, December 4, at 2 p.m. The satirical opera about a half-man, half-ape, was sketched in 1932, and discovered in 2006, at Moscow's Glinka Museum by Russian musicologist Olga Digonskaya. At the request of Shostakovich's widow and Digonskaya, British composer Gerard McBurney developed the orchestration of ORANGO in 2009.

CoActive Content, Stacey Martino, Founder/Artistic Director, and American Latino Theatre Company, David Llauger-Meiselman, Artistic Director, will present a new co-production of the critically acclaimed play, 'The King of the Desert,' written by Stacey Martino, performed by René Rivera, and helmed by award-winning director, Sal Romeo, all Studio Lifetime Members of The Actors Studio.

On Monday, October 31, the Metropolitan Opera Guild pays tribute to the legendary American mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, one of the greatest singers of our time, at the Guild's 77th annual luncheon, a perennial highlight of the opera season.

2011 New York Emmy Award winner Paula Zahn hosts the next SundayArts Primetime Special from The Museum of Modern Art. She looks at the Sculpture Garden; 'de Kooning: A Retrospective'; 'Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929-1983'; and 'Diego Rivera Murals for the Museum of Modern Art.' The special airs on Thursday, October 27 at 8 p.m. (WLIW will show the program on Thursday, November 3 at 7:30pm)

2011 New York Emmy Award winner Paula Zahn hosts the next SundayArts Primetime Special from The Museum of Modern Art. She looks at the Sculpture Garden; 'de Kooning: A Retrospective'; 'Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929-1983'; and 'Diego Rivera Murals for the Museum of Modern Art.' The special airs on Thursday, October 27 at 8 p.m. (WLIW will show the program on Thursday, November 3 at 7:30pm)

This fall, the Rubin Museum of Art will present a dramatic sweep of cultural programming relating to Himalayan narrative, expressed through both the art of traditional storytelling and contemporary media such as film.

The U.S. premiere of Duality of Light, an interactive art installation by Australian Lynette Wallworth in Alice Tully Hall with free admission; a free concert by Malian ngoni virtuoso Bassekou Kouyate and musicians; a screening of Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 classic film, The Passion of Joan of Arc, with an original score by renowned musicians Adrian Utley and Will Gregory of the downtempo groups Portishead and Goldfrapp; an encore performance of Four Quartets performed by Stephen Dillane and the Miró Quartet, directed by Katie Mitchell; and two conversations moderated by New York Public Radio's John Schaefer, The Self including biographer Edmund Morris and Soul Music including composer Philip Glass, have been added to the 2011 White Light Festival schedule, it was announced today by Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic Director at Lincoln Center.

Lincoln Center's upcoming White Light Festival (October 20-November 19, 2011), in its second season, will include two outstanding theater productions among the range of works of music, film, dance, art and discussion to be presented.