Question: Adriana Mater received its world premiere at the Opéra Bastille on 3 April 2006 in a production directed by which American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays?

Context articles: Solveig Kringlebotn
Israel Hicks
Peter Sellars
Adriana Mater
Margaret Lloyd
Steven Dietz
Marco Balderi
Perelà, uomo di fumo
Clybourne Park
Paris Opera

Solveig Kringlebotn (born 4 June 1963), better known outside Norway as Solveig Kringelborn, is an internationally known Norwegian operatic soprano.
 In April 2006, she created the role of Refka in the world premiere of Kaija Saariaho's opera "Adriana Mater" at the Opéra National de Paris
Israel Theo Hicks (August 23, 1943 – July 3, 2010) was an American theatre director who produced works at regional theaters around the country and Off Broadway, and was best known for his stagings of the entire series of plays by August Wilson about the African-American experience in the U.S. during and following the Great Migration.
Peter Sellars (born 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays.
 Sellars is professor at UCLA, where he teaches "Art as Social Action" and "Art as Moral Action".
Adriana Mater is the second opera by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, with a libretto in French by her frequent collaborator, Amin Maalouf.
 The National Opera of Paris and the Finnish National Opera jointly commissioned the opera.
 It received its world premiere at the Opéra Bastille on 3 April 2006 in a production directed by Peter Sellars.
 The production was dedicated to Gerard Mortier, Artistic Director of the National Opera of Paris.
Margaret Lloyd (born 1973) is an American soprano who is particularly known for her performances in contemporary operas and concert works.
 She has sung in the world premieres of several operas, most notably portraying the role of Lightfoot McClendon in the premiere of Carlisle Floyd's "Cold Sassy Tree" at the Houston Grand Opera in 2000.
 She has also sung in the world premieres of several works by composer Michael Torke.
Steven Dietz (born June 23, 1958) is an American playwright.
 With the exception of "Fiction", produced Off-Broadway by the Roundabout Theatre Company in 2004, the vast majority of Dietz's plays are produced in American regional theaters.
 During the 2015-16 season, Dietz premiered three new plays: "Bloomsday" (American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg New Play Award Citation), "This Random World" (Humana Festival of New American Plays), and the thriller "On Clover Road" (National New Play Network rolling world premiere).
 In 2010, Dietz was once again named one of the most produced playwrights in America (excluding Shakespeare), placing eighth on the list of the Top Ten Most Produced Playwrights in America, tied with Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee for number of productions.
 Other recent plays include the black comedy, "Rancho Mirage", and the contemporary riff on Arthur Schnitzler's "Reigen" entitled "American la Ronde".
 Dietz has taught in the MFA Playwriting and Directing programs at the University of Texas at Austin since 2006 .
 In addition, he is a Dramatists Guild "Traveling Master", teaching workshops and master classes on playwriting and story-making around the U.S.
Marco Balderi is an Italian orchestra conductor who began his career after winning the International Competitions of Salzburg and Alexandria.
 He toured Austria, China, Korea, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain and Switzerland.
 He is known for acclaimed productions of "Madama Butterfly" at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, and at the Opéra Bastille in Paris in January 2006, as well as Georges Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers" in New Delhi.
 Balderi has studied numerous symphonic works, including all the symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Schumann, and over 200 operas, forty of which he has conducted.
 He has also studied 650 sacred and profane vocal works.
Perelà, uomo di fumo ("Perelà, man of smoke") is an opera in ten chapters composed by Pascal Dusapin.
 Dusapin himself wrote the Italian libretto, based on the novel, "Il codice Perelà" by the Italian Futurist writer, Aldo Palazzeschi.
 The opera had its world premiere on 24 February 2003 at the Opéra Bastille, conducted by James Conlon.
Clybourne Park (2010) is a play by Bruce Norris written as a spin-off to Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin in the Sun" (1959).
 It portrays fictional events set before and after the Hansberry play, and is loosely based on historical events that took place in the city of Chicago.
 It premiered in February 2010 at Playwrights Horizons in New York.
 The play received its UK premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in London in a production directed by Dominic Cooke.
 The play received its Chicago premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in a production directed by Steppenwolf ensemble member Amy Morton.
 As described by "The Washington Post", the play "applies a modern twist to the issues of race and housing and aspirations for a better life."
 "Clybourne Park" was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play.
The Paris Opera (French: "Opéra de Paris" ;    ) is the primary opera company of France.
 It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra , and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and officially renamed the Académie Royale de Musique , but continued to be known more simply as the Opéra .
 Classical ballet as we know it today arose within the Paris Opera as the Paris Opera Ballet and has remained an integral and important part of the company.
 Currently called the Opéra National de Paris , it mainly produces operas at its modern 2700-seat theatre Opéra Bastille which opened in 1989, and ballets and some classical operas at the older 1970-seat Palais Garnier which opened in 1875.
 Small scale and contemporary works are also staged in the 500-seat Amphitheatre under the Opéra Bastille.