Peter Sellars’ staging of Prokofiev’s `The Gambler’ is Salzburg Festival’s latest offbeat success
SALZBURG, Austria — Offbeat operas have been some of the Salzburg Festival’s best in recent years, the latest a colorful, outlandish and entertaining staging of Sergei Prokofiev’s “The Gambler” by director Peter Sellars. Starring soprano Asmik Grigorian as Polina and tenor Sean Panikkar as Alexei, the 125-minute work was met with enthusiastic applause when it … Read more
