Sellars staged a series of Mozart's operas "Così fan tutte" (set in a diner on Cape Cod), "The Marriage of Figaro" (set in a luxury apartment in New York City's Trump Tower), and "Don Giovanni" (set in New York City's Spanish Harlem, cast and costumed as a blaxploitation movie), in collaboration with Emmanuel Music and its Artistic Director, Craig Smith. The productions were met with great critical acclaim, recorded in Austria by ORF in 1989, subsequently televised by PBS, and later revived at MC93 Bobigny (Paris) and the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona).