Bill Viola, a video artist who combined with director Peter Sellars on a groundbreaking production of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” originally seen in Los Angeles, Paris and New York, has died at age 73.
FILE - Video artist Bill Viola speaks at a news conference, Oct. 18, 2011, in Tokyo. Viola, a video artist who combined with director Peter Sellars on a groundbreaking production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde originally seen in Los Angeles, Paris and New York, died Friday, July 12, 2024, at age 73.
“A defining moment in nearly 140 years of continual staging of an opera that transformed music more than any other single work,” Los Angeles Times critic Mark Swed wrote after a 2022 revival at Disney Hall. He married Kira Perov, director of cultural events at Melbourne’s La Trobe University, in 1980, three years after they met when she'd asked him to show videos at an exhibition. Perov became his artistic collaborator and they spent a year in Japan on a cultural exchange program before moving to California.“We put in a lot of our own personal money to finish it,” he said in the 2013 interview.
By the mid-1980s, Viola’s work was seen at the Whitney and the Museum of the Moving Image, and in 1987 he had what MoMa said was the first video artist to have a retrospective there.
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