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Peter Sellars, Director
"Mourning through Music"
A conversation permeated by live performance,
moderated by Ara Guzelimian
Princeton University Concerts Debut
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Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | 7:30PM
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12/03/2025 7:30 pm 12/03/2025 9:30 pm America/New_York Peter Sellars, Director"Mourning through Music"
A conversation permeated by live performance,
moderated by Ara Guzelimian
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall
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Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall
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Throughout his career, Peter Sellars has — be it in opera, theater, teaching or the director’s innumerable talks and interviews — demonstrated how whatever is at hand might serve to make ourselves more alive. Tragedy serves. Comedy serves. History serves. Spirituality serves. Human relationships serve. In all cases, the messier, the more revelatory. Art, meant for the moment, is always for Sellars about healing."
—The Los Angeles Times
Music & Healing
About the Event
“It’s not an accident that most of the greatest art comes from the most painful periods in human history,” asserts director Peter Sellars. Internationally renowned for his groundbreaking interpretations of opera and theater on some of the world’s most prestigious stages, from the Metropolitan Opera to the Salzburg Festival, he has dedicated his career to exploring the profound intersection of art and the human spirit. A MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and one of the most visionary voices in contemporary performance, Sellars joins Ara Guzelimian, Artistic and Executive Director of the Ojai Music Festival and former Dean and Provost of The Juilliard School, for an intimate conversation about the art born from his own life’s darkest moments—and how he has harnessed the transformative power of music to help others similarly navigate grief and mourning.
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“It’s not an accident that most of the greatest art comes from the most painful periods in human history,” asserts director Peter Sellars. Internationally renowned for his groundbreaking interpretations of opera and theater on some of the world’s most prestigious stages, from the Metropolitan Opera to the Salzburg Festival, he has dedicated his career to exploring the profound intersection of art and the human spirit. A MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and one of the most visionary voices in contemporary performance, Sellars joins Ara Guzelimian, Artistic and Executive Director of the Ojai Music Festival and former Dean and Provost of The Juilliard School, for an intimate conversation about the art born from his own life’s darkest moments—and how he has harnessed the transformative power of music to help others similarly navigate grief and mourning.
Program
- Mourning through Music
A conversation with Peter Sellars moderated by Ara Guzelimian, permeated by live performance.
