Peter Sellars Quotes

You collect all this material and at a certain moment passages start speaking with other passages... A conversation that goes along with individual source material just takes off, and things start ricocheting and having surprising connections or counterbalances. You're always looking for yin and yang so the drama thrives on contrasts and contradictions.

- Peter Sellars

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And the other great thing that we're allowed to do and you're not is use metaphor. - Peter Sellars

You collect all this material and at a certain moment passages start speaking with other passages... A conversation that goes along with individual source material just takes off, and things start ricocheting and having surprising connections or counterbalances. You're always looking for yin and yang so the drama thrives on contrasts and contradictions. - Peter Sellars

John sets it for Gerry [Gerald Finley, the baritone singing Oppenheimer] and full orchestra as a personal chaconne. Of course, you know that Robert Oppenheimer would be somebody who would have gone to an Alfred Deller concert or would have Alfred Deller records. - Peter Sellars