Sellars at Purchase

Talk story about a visit to SUNY Purchase in Westchester to see a rehearsal of Peter Sellars' production of Handel's "Guilio Cesare in Egitto." Sellars is the 27 yr. old director of the American National Theatre. He produced this opera for the Pepsico Summerfare Festival at Purchase. His settings are modern--they resemble a hotel in Cairo. But the music is delivered uncut, as Handel would have heard it. Writer tells about the staging of a scene in the second act at a rehearsal. Writer also tells about Sellars' interpretation of the opera.

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