We are very pleased and grateful to inform you that the City of Gothenburg will offer all participants a dinner on 31 October. The dinner will take place in the Concert Hall, in the heart of the conference area.


At the opening plenary of ELIA's 10th Biennal Conference, the keynote address will be given by Peter Sellars .


Photo: Kevin Higa

Peter Sellars, dr. h.c., Professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, is one of the world's leading theater directors, famous for his stagings of Mozart's Da Ponte operas and of 20th-21st century repertoire. In particular, he is renowned for his collaboration with composer John Adams in creating the politically engaged operas Nixon in China (1987), The Death of Klinghofer (1991), Doctor Atomic (2005), and A Flowering Tree (2006).

Sellars has been invited to the Salzburg and Glyndebourne Festivals, is a regular guest at the Holland Festival, and has been director to the Los Angeles Festival, Adelaide Festival of the Arts and the New Crowned Hope festival in Vienna, Austria. Both in his opera settings and in his work for theater with the Boston Shakespeare Company and the American National Theater, he has earned acclaim as well as incited controversy by his radical updating of the classical repertoire.

He was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 1998.