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Additional authors

1. Sellars, Peter.
2. Tsypin, George, 1954-
3. Aronson, Arnold
4. Character Generators/Video.

Description

1. 2 videocassettes (80 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in. (U-matic)

Summary

1. Director Peter Sellars and scenic designer George Tsypin discuss productions on which they mutually worked including, at length, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni with its setting in New York City's Harlem and, in less detail, Olivier Messiaen's St. Francis of Assisi, John Adam's The death of Klinghoffer, Nigel Osborne's The electrification of the Soviet Union, and the film The cabinet of Dr. Ramirez, their working relationship, the time and resources required to realize their ideas, and how they challenge their performers to take risks, particularly on complicated or multi-leveled sets. Concludes with a question and answer period with the audience.

Alternative title

1. Director/designer dialogue presents Peter Sellars and George Tsypin

Subject

1. Sellars, Peter
2. Tsypin, George, 1954-
3. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
4. Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992
5. Adams, John, 1947-
6. Osborne, Nigel
7. The cabinet of Dr. Ramirez (Motion picture)
8. Opera producers and directors > Interviews
9. Set designers > Interviews
10. Opera > Production and direction
11. Discussion

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.

Call number

1. NCOW 117

Note

1. Part of: Mozart in America: Design for Opera, The Prague Quadrennial Exhibition of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, on display Dec. 19, 1991 to Feb. 15, 1992, at the Main Gallery of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, a project of the Mozart Bicentennial at Lincoln Center, New York, N.Y.

Performer (note)

1. Participants: Peter Sellars, George Tsypin, with Arnold Aronson, moderator.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at its Main Gallery, New York, N.Y., Jan. 16, 1992.

Title

1. [Dialogue with Peter Sellars and George Tsypin] [videorecording] / [Video producer, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts] ; [video prod. company] Character Generators.

Imprint

1. New York, c1992.

Performer

1. Participants: Peter Sellars, George Tsypin, with Arnold Aronson, moderator.

Event

1. Videotaped by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at its Main Gallery, New York, N.Y., Jan. 16, 1992.

Added author

1. Sellars, Peter.
2. Tsypin, George, 1954-
3. Aronson, Arnold, moderator.
4. Character Generators/Video.

Research call number

1. NCOW 117