A certain contemporary composer, who specializes in a specific field of music, has produced works about a U.S. president, a terrorist action, a natural disaster, and a famed but controversial scientist. His collaborator and director on some of these works once staged a production of a famous play in a university swimming pool. Who is the composer, and who is his collaborator --oh, and what was the play?

TabbyTom

The composer is John Adams, whose works include “Nixon in China”, “The Death of Klinghoffer” (about the hijacking of the Achille Lauro), “I Was Looking At The Ceiling And Then I Saw The Sky” (about the 1994 earthquake in Los Angeles) and “Doctor Atomic” (about J Robert Oppenheimer). His collaborator is the director Peter Sellars. The play was Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra.” I think this page gives most of the details: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sellars May 17 06, 5:18 PM

lanfranco

Elegant, TT. I am most impressed. I have never met Peter Sellars, but I did have the privilege of meeting John Adams in Rome and of seeing his own film of the original production of "Nixon in China." I was knocked flat. May 17 06, 5:25 PM