There are names I do not want mentioned in my home. Do not say that name in my presence. I have seen what he has done, and it is criminal. As my husband used to say, so far no one has dared go into the Louvre Museum to spray graffiti on the Mona Lisa, but some opera directors are spraying graffiti over masterpieces.The August 2019 Los Angeles Times piece on Sellars also focused on a production of Lohengrin directed by fellow MacArthur recipient Yuval Sharon. The article concluded by asking about the two American directors, "Can we go so far as to call this a Los Angeles school of opera? From this side of the Atlantic, that’s where the big ideas seem to be coming from."