Tsai Ming-liang
"Opera Jawa" was one of several films commissioned by Peter Sellars for the New Crowned Hope Festival in 2006 in Vienna to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Other films commissioned for the project included "I Don't Want to Sleep Alone" by Tsai Ming-liang and "Syndromes and a Century" by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.