Next year, Peter Sellars brings Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine, an in-depth portrait of Joséphine Baker, to the Adelaide Festival. It stars Grammy Award-winning soprano Julia Bullock, who in turn reworks John Adams’ oratorio El Niño which Sellars staged at the 2002 Festival. Jansson J. Antmann talks to Bullock and Sellars about their 15-year association and the art of activism.
It is early autumn in Europe when I meet director Peter Sellars over Zoom. He is in the thick of rehearsals for the Italian premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater with Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and his mood is as...
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