Featured Work
San Francisco Chronicle
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"The journey to Angel Island is personal for this San Francisco string quartet"
A conversation with the Del Sol Quartet as they launch a chamber music series at a former immigrant detention center. September 2024 |
San Francisco Classical Voice
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"The Man in the Portrait: Ignatius Sancho’s Music Comes Alive at the Frick"
An 18th-century Black composer, abolitionist, and bon vivant steps out of his historic portrait. April 2026 |
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"Imagining Nikola Tesla: Phil Kline’s New Opera Searches for the Man Behind the Myth"
In conversation with composer Phil Kline about setting one of history's greatest and most eccentric geniuses to music. April 2024 |
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"Breaking the Silence: Mannes Opera Gives the U.S. premiere of Korngold’s 1940s operetta, The Silent Serenade"
A lost operetta from Hollywood's golden age gets its American premiere — 80 years late. March 2026 |
Classical Voice North America
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"Denk Celebrates Ives, That Thorny American, In Anniversary Recital"
In conversation with Jeremy Denk ahead of his tribute to Ives with a performance of the ‘Concord’ Sonata at the 92nd St. Y New York. |
Peter Sellars
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"MacArthur “Geniuses” Matthew Aucoin and Peter Sellars Bring Music for New Bodies to Lincoln Center"
An ambitious new symphony for voices-some human, some planetary, some artificial--probes humanity's relationship with the earth in the face of climate change. July 2025 |
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"In first-time collaboration, opera visionaries Aucoin and Sellars give voice to the planet" for Classical Voice North America
Insight from Peter Sellars and Matthew Aucoin on Music for New Bodies, a "synesthetic song cycle." April 2024 |
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"Beatrice di Tenda re-enters the repertoire with an incisive production at Paris’s Opéra Bastille" for Seen and Heard International
In conversation with director Peter Sellars about his first Italian opera and the most transgressive work by Bellini you've never heard. February 2024 |
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"Opera Meets Film: Peter Sellars’ ‘this body is so impermanent’" for OperaWire
Artists across disciplines explore an ancient Buddhist text for a modern meditation on illness and health. February 2023 |
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"Calling Dr. Atomic: In Santa Fe, Peter Sellars Revists the Bomb" for Clyde Fitch Report
Exploring the power—and agony—of Robert Oppenheimer September 2018 |
All Work by Publication
San Francisco Chronicle
Opera America
San Francisco Classical Voice
- "Celebrating Carlisle Floyd, Father of American Opera, at 100"—June 2026
- "The Man in the Portrait: Ignatius Sancho’s Music Comes Alive at the Frick"—April 2026
- "Breaking the Silence: Mannes Opera Gives the U.S. premiere of Korngold’s 1940s operetta, The Silent Serenade"—March 2026
- "Mannes Opera Presents Kaija Saariaho Oratorio About Simone Weil"—October 2025
- "MacArthur “Geniuses” Matthew Aucoin and Peter Sellars Bring Music for New Bodies to Lincoln Center"—July 2025
- "John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles Marks a Major Anniversary in Houston"—April 2025
- "Bringing Morgiane, the First African American Opera, Back to Life"—January 2025
- "Letter From Sun Valley: New Music by Quinn Mason and James Ehnes’s Brahms Concerto"—August 2024
Classical Voice North America
- "Denk Celebrates Ives, That Thorny American, In Anniversary Recital"—December 2024
- "In first-time collaboration, opera visionaries Aucoin and Sellars give voice to the planet"—April 2024
- "60 Years On, Exploring Resonance Between John Cage And Japan"—September 2023
- "The Delicacy Of Suicide As Lyric Reflection In Lang’s ‘note to a friend’"—January 2023
Circle Ahead Fashion Magazine
Seen and Heard International
OperaWire
- "Opera Meets Film: Peter Sellars’ ‘this body is so impermanent’" —February 2023
Clyde Fitch Report
- "Triangle Shirtwaist Burns with 'Fire in My Mouth' Oratorio--January 2019
- "Calling 'Doctor Atomic': In Santa Fe, Peter Sellars Revisits the Bomb"—September 2018
- "Omaha's Under the Radar Festival is OUTR This World"—August 2017
- "In the Age of #MeToo, I'm Thinking About Yuja Wang—December 2017
- "Must Be the Bourbon: Inclusive Classical Music in Kentucky"—May 2017
- "Classical Music Gets a Modern Makeover by Women"—March 2017