Peter Sellars: a little bit of politics

The great opera director Peter Sellars is tackling war, famine, farming and globalisation. He tells Nicholas Wroe why all he needed was a bit of Kafka and a housewife scrubbing a floorA few weeks ago, Peter Sellars travelled to Mali to collaborate with a musician called Rokia Traoré. "We worked with these wonderful traditional players, literally, under a mango tree," recalls the opera and theatre director. "It couldn't have been more African. Except it's difficult to know what African, or west...

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