In 1998, Sellars was awarded the Erasmus Prize for his work combining European and American cultural traditions in opera and theatre. He directed an important production of The Persians at the Edinburgh Festival in 1993, which articulated the play as a response to the Gulf War of 1990–91. He also staged Handel's opera Giulio Cesare and oratorio Theodora, Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky and The Peony Pavilion. The Salzburg and Glyndebourne Festivals invited Sellars to produce operas including Olivier Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise, Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler, György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, John Adams's and Alice Goodman's Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer, and Kaija Saariaho's L'amour de loin. He co-wrote and featured in Jean-Luc Godard's film of King Lear. Ramirez, a silent color film starring Joan Cusack, Peter Gallagher, Ron Vawter, and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Sellars directed one feature film, The Cabinet of Dr. The productions were met with great critical acclaim, recorded in Austria by ORF in 1989, subsequently televised by PBS, and later revived at MC93 Bobigny (Paris) and the Gran Teatre del Liceu ( Barcelona). Sellars produced the three operas by Mozart with libretti by da Ponte, Così fan tutte (set in a diner on Cape Cod), The Marriage of Figaro (set in a luxury apartment in New York City's Trump Tower), and Don Giovanni (set in New York City's Spanish Harlem, cast and costumed as a blaxploitation movie), in collaboration with Emmanuel Music and its Artistic Director, Craig Smith. He was Artistic Director of the 19 Los Angeles Festivals, presenting works of talented artists like the late Iranian director Reza Abdoh, and playwright Frank Ambriz. He also directed productions of Idiot's Delight by Robert Sherwood and Sophocles's Ajax, as adapted by Robert Auletta. The production had a set design by George Tsypin, with costumes by Dunya Ramicova, and lighting by James F. During his years in Washington, Sellars staged a production of The Count of Monte Cristo, in a version by James O'Neill, featuring Richard Thomas, Patti LuPone, Zakes Mokae, and many other performers. at the age of 26, a post he held until 1986. In 1984, he was named director and manager of the American National Theater in Washington, D.C.
In 1983 he received a MacArthur Fellowship. Among his productions were an influential Pericles, Prince of Tyre and a staging of The Lighthouse by British composer Peter Maxwell Davies. Sellars served as director of the Boston Shakespeare Company for the 1983–1984 season. Later, Sellars studied in Japan, China, and India. In the winter of 1980, a production of George Frideric Handel's Orlando, again at the American Repertory Theatre, brought him to national attention-perhaps because of the novel concept of setting it in outer space. Opera News hailed it "an act of artistic vandalism". The production was performed under the aegis of the Monadnock Music Festival in Manchester, New Hampshire. This was followed during the summer of 1980 by staging of Don Giovanni, cast, costumed, and presented to resemble a blaxploitation film, with Don Giovanni partying almost-naked (underwear only) and shooting heroin. In his senior year, he staged a production of Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector-General at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sellars's production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in the swimming pool of Harvard's Adams House brought press attention well beyond campus, as did the subsequent techno-industrial production of King Lear, which included a Lincoln Continental on stage and ambient musical moods by Robert Rutman's U.S. Sellars attended Harvard University and as an undergraduate, he performed a puppet version of Wagner's Ring cycle, and directed a minimalist production of Three Sisters, with mature birch trees on the stage apron at Loeb Drama Center and Chopin Nocturnes played on a concert grand piano seen through a suspended gauze box set. He put on the most incredible musical/dramatic performances I had ever seen.
a small boy with a shock of hair and an odd way who, no matter day or night, would always say 'Good morning' to me when I would pass him. Classmate and future magazine publisher Sloane Citron remembers Sellars as: Sellars was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
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