Stage Director

Alonzo King and LINES Ballet unearth new corners of Ravel’s enchanting Mother Goose, while Peter Sellars plumbs the depths of Schoenberg’s monodrama Erwartung in a new staging featuring soprano Mary Elizabeth Williams.

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Alonzo King & Peter Sellars

Davies Symphony Hall

Following their widely acclaimed collaboration on Lagrime di San Pietro, Peter Sellars, Grant Gershon and singers of the Los Angeles Master Chorale reunite with a deeply personal meditation on what it means to say goodbye in times of struggle. The luminous music of the Baroque composer Heinrich Schütz’s serves as the inspiration for this ceremony of remembrance and devotion.

Los Angeles Master Chorale

Stanford University

For more than 400 years, the Black American spiritual tradition has moved over, across, and through the waters—waters of life force, passage, cleansing, resistance, and renewal—depicted in such songs and verses as “Wade in the Water,” “Deep River,” “Crossing Jordan,” and “By the Waters of Babylon.”

The power of water and its spiritual dimensions equally resonates in the beautiful, sacred texts of Bach’s cantatas. Infused with poetry, Bach’s music sounds and speaks to every drop of water, in drought and in full flood, moving and alive.

Peter Sellars

Stage Director

Events

Jun 7, 2023 - Jun 9, 2024

Alonzo King & Peter Sellars · San Francisco Symphony

Apr 27, 2024

Los Angeles Master Chorale · Stanford Live

May 21, 2024

Shall We Gather at the River · Park Avenue Armory

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