Peter Sellars
Peter Sellars is an American theatre director, noted for his unique stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he teaches Art as Social Action and Art as Moral Action. He has been described as a key figure of theatre and opera for the last 50 years.
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- Born in
- Pittsburgh
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityPhillips AcademySt. Edmund's Academy
- Awards
- 🏆 Polar Music Prize🏆 Erasmus Prize🏆 MacArthur Fellows Program
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1957
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