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[Dialogue with Peter Sellars and George Tsypin]
- Title
- [Dialogue with Peter Sellars and George Tsypin] [videorecording] / [Video producer, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts] ; [video prod. company] Character Generators.
- Publication
- New York, c1992.
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- Description
- 2 videocassettes (80 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in. (U-matic)
- Summary
- 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
- Director/designer dialogue presents Peter Sellars and George Tsypin
- Subjects
- Adams, John, 1947- > Death of Klinghoffer (Opera)
- Tsypin, George, 1954-
- Osborne, Nigel > Electrification of the Soviet Union
- Interviews
- Opera producers and directors > Interviews
- Discussion
- The cabinet of Dr. Ramirez (Motion picture)
- Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992 > Saint François d'Assise
- Opera > Production and direction
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 > Don Giovanni
- Sellars, Peter
- Set designers > Interviews
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Note
- 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)
- Participants: Peter Sellars, George Tsypin, with Arnold Aronson, moderator.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at its Main Gallery, New York, N.Y., Jan. 16, 1992.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.
- Call Number
- NCOW 117
- OCLC
- NYPG98-F367
- Title
- [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
- New York, c1992.
- Performer
- Participants: Peter Sellars, George Tsypin, with Arnold Aronson, moderator.
- Event
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at its Main Gallery, New York, N.Y., Jan. 16, 1992.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.
- Added Author
- Sellars, Peter.Tsypin, George, 1954-Aronson, Arnold, moderator.Character Generators/Video.
- Research Call Number
- NCOW 117