Overview

The Wallis is proud to partner with the Ojai Music Festival to present an enlightening Arts & Ideas conversation between groundbreaking opera and theater director Peter Sellars and The New Yorker music critic Alex Ross on the stage of the Bram Goldsmith Theater. Sellars, the Ojai Music Festival 2016 Music Director, has gained international renown for his transformative interpretations of artistic masterpieces such as John Adams’ Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer, and for his distinctive collaborations with an extraordinary range of artists including Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, dance pioneer Reggie Gray and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. Ross, a 2008 MacArthur Fellow, is the author of Listen to This and The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.