Peter Sellars News

La MaMa will present the world-premiere of HAMYUL/HAMLET -- a new adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic play by Korean-American writer/director Byungkoo Ahn-- this summer, with preview performances starting June 23 prior to a press opening June 26 at La MaMa (74A E. 4 St.) in Manhattan. Byungkoo Ahn directs.

La MaMa will present the world-premiere of HAMYUL/HAMLET -- a new adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic play by Korean-American writer/director Byungkoo Ahn-- this summer, with preview performances starting June 23 prior to a press opening June 26 at La MaMa (74A E. 4 St.) in Manhattan. Byungkoo Ahn directs.

La MaMa will present the world-premiere of HAMYUL/HAMLET -- a new adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic play by Korean-American writer/director Byungkoo Ahn-- this summer, with preview performances starting June 23 prior to a press opening June 26 at La MaMa (74A E. 4 St.) in Manhattan. Byungkoo Ahn directs.

La MaMa will present the world-premiere of HAMYUL/HAMLET -- a new adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic play by Korean-American writer/director Byungkoo Ahn-- this summer, with preview performances starting June 23 prior to a press opening June 26 at La MaMa (74A E. 4 St.) in Manhattan. Byungkoo Ahn directs.

To celebrate Maestro James Levine's 40 years at the Metropolitan Opera, American Masters presents James Levine: America's Maestro, premiering nationally Wednesday, June 1 at 8 p.m.

The Metropolitan Opera's premiere production of John Adams' 'Nixon in China,' conducted by the composer and staged by internationally acclaimed director Peter Sellars, will air in primetime on THIRTEEN's 'Great Performances at the Met' Wednesday, June 1 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS

Matías Tarnopolsky, Director of Cal Performances, the internationally distinguished arts presenter based on the campus of UC Berkeley, announces the 2011-2012 season featuring the United States premiere of the Desdemona project, a new work by Peter Sellars and Toni Morrison, inspired by Othello; a three-concert residency by the Mariinsky Orchestra of St. Petersburg performing the six Tchaikovsky symphonies; and the Cal Performances debuts of actor John Malkovich in The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer, a work that combines theater, opera and music, and countertenor Philippe Jaroussky.

The film is based on the DC Comics superhero and will be directed by Martin Campbell and produced by DonaldDe Line and Greg Berlanti. Berlanti also wrote the script with Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green. Rewrites were done by Michael Goldenberg and the release is set for June 17th.

Having a credited new bookwriter added to make wholesale changes while a show is previewing has been done before with mixed results.

Though the music of Gustav Mahler is the cornerstone of Thomas Hampson's 2010-11 season, the baritone will take some time away from the Austrian composer this month to devote his energy to two other great passions: American song and teaching.

Though the music of Gustav Mahler is the cornerstone of Thomas Hampson's 2010-11 season, the baritone will take some time away from the Austrian composer this month to devote his energy to two other great passions: American song and teaching.

Music Director Gustavo Dudamel and President Deborah Borda announced today the 2011/12 season of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

The Metropolitan Opera will present its first-ever performances of John Adams' Nixon in China beginning February 2, with the composer conducting his own score.

The Los Angeles Master Chorale explores England's grand choral tradition through the ages with 'London Bridges,' an all-British program conducted by Music Director Grant Gershon featuring the music of William Byrd, Judith Weir, John Tavener and Benjamin Britten, as well as a selection of English madrigals, on Sunday, January 30, 2011, 7:00 p.m., at Disney Hall. Lesley Leighton, appointed Assistant Conductor of the chorus in July 2010, makes her Los Angeles Master Chorale conducting debut leading Hymn to St. Cecelia, one of two Britten works to be spotlighted. Organist Paul Meier is the guest artist.