Films with: Sellars, Peter

Destination Mozart a night at the opera with Peter Sellars /

This television special program gives viewers a look at Sellars' controversial productions of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Marriage of Figaro and Così Fan Tutte. Sellars has stunned the music world with his unconventional approach to these musical masterpieces by setting them in the contemporary U.S.: the South Bronx, Trump Tower and a Long Island diner, respectively. Featured are extended excerpts from the operas, as well as interviews with Sellars and his collaborators.

DVD 10720

Doctor Atomic opera in two acts /

J. Robert Oppenheimer began an experiment that formed a threat to the whole of humanity, and whose scientific results still do today. The question of the moral implications of the atomic bomb is raised in Adams opera.

DVD 8554

Nixon in China

Opera depicting U.S. President Richard Nixon's historic state visit to mainland China in February 1972.

DVD 10147