The Industry Opera is a Los Angeles-based opera company that creates experimental productions. Founded in 2010 by Artistic Director

Yuval Sharon Yuval Sharon is an American opera and theater director from Naperville, Illinois, based in Los Angeles. He is the founder and co-artistic director of The Industry Opera. Since 2020, he has served as the Gary L. Wasserman Artistic Director of ...

, The Industry has created site-specific projects across Los Angeles. The industry's projects include world premiere productions with composers

Raven Chacon Raven Chacon (born 1977) is a Diné composer, musician and artist. Born in Fort Defiance, Arizona within the Navajo Nation, Chacon became the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music, for his '' Voiceless Mass'' in 2022. He has ...

Du Yun Du Yun (traditional Chinese: 杜韻, simplified Chinese: 杜韵) is a Chinese-born American composer, performer, musician and performance artist. She won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera ''Angel's Bone'', with libretto by Royce ...

, Rand Steiger,

Veronika Krausas Veronika Judita Krausas (born 1963) is a Canadian composer who lives and works in the United States. Biography She was born in Sydney, Australia but grew up in Canada after the age of four. Her diplomas in music education and performance were com ...

, Marc Lowenstein, Andrew McIntosh,

Andrew Norman Andrew Norman (born October 31, 1979) is an American composer of contemporary classical music whose texturally complex music is influenced by architecture and the visual arts. His string trio '' The Companion Guide to Rome'' (2010), was a runn ...

, Ellen Reid,

David Rosenboom David Rosenboom (born 1947 in Fairfield, Iowa) is a composer, performer, interdisciplinary artist, author, and educator known for his work in American experimental music. Rosenboom has explored various forms of music, languages for improvisation, ...

Christopher Cerrone Christopher Cerrone (born March 5, 1984) is an American composer based in New York City. He was a 2014 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a 2014 Fromm Foundation commission recipient, a 2015 Rome Prize winner in Music Composition, and has received nu ...

, and

Anne LeBaron Alice Anne LeBaron (born May 30, 1953) is an American composer, harpist, academic, and writer. Frequently combining tonal and atonal techniques with an experimental approach, LeBaron's compositions utilize elements of blues, jazz, pop, rock ...

, and new productions of works by

John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and Extended technique, non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one ...

Lou Harrison Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer, music critic, music theorist, painter, and creator of unique musical instruments. Harrison initially wrote in a dissonant, ultramodernist style similar to his for ...

, and

Terry Riley Terrence Mitchell Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist music, minimalist school of composition. Influenced by jazz and Indian classical music, his work became notab ...

through the company's Highway One series.

Opera projects produced by The Industry

* ''Crescent City'' (2010, Anne LaBaron, composer;

Douglas Kearney Douglas Kearney (born 1974) is an American poet, performer and librettist. Kearney grew up in Altadena, California. His work has appeared in ''Nocturnes'', ''Jubilat'', ''Beloit Poetry Journal'', ''Gulf Coast'', ''Poetry'', ''Pleiades'', ''Iowa ...

, librettist; Yuval Sharon, director; Marc Lowenstein, conductor) * ''Invisible Cities'' (2013, Christopher Cerrone, composer & librettist; based on the novel ''

Invisible Cities ''Invisible Cities'' () is a postmodern novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. It was published in Italy in 1972 by Giulio Einaudi Editore. Description The book is framed as a conversation between the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, and Marco Pol ...

'' by

Italo Calvino Italo Calvino (, ; ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the ''Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the '' Cosm ...

; Yuval Sharon, director; Marc Lowenstein, conductor) * ''IN C'' (performance installation, co-produced by the

Hammer Museum The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur- ...

) * ''Hopscotch'' (2015), Veronika Krausas, Marc Lowenstein, Andrew McIntosh, Andrew Norman, Ellen Reid, David Rosenboom, composers; Tom Jacobson, Mandy Kahn, Sarah LaBrie, Jane Stephens Rosenthal, Janine Salinas Schoenberg, Erin Young, librettists; Yuval Sharon, director) * ''Nimbus'' (performance installation, co-produced by

LA Philharmonic The Los Angeles Philharmonic (LA Phil) is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California. The orchestra holds a regular concert season from October until June at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and a summer season at the Hollywood Bowl from ...

) (2017, Rand Steiger, composer & sound designer) * ''Young Caesar'' (co-produced by

) (2017, Lou Harrison, composer; Robert Gordon, librettist; new performance edition created by Yuval Sharon and Marc Lowenstein; Yuval Sharon, director; Marc Lowenstein, conductor) * War of the Worlds (co-produced by

) (2017, Annie Gosfield, composer; Yuval Sharon, libretto and direction; Christopher Rountree, conductor) * ''Europeras'' (co-produced by

) (2018, John Cage, creator; Yuval Sharon, director) * ''Sweet Land'' (2020, Du Yun, Raven Chacon, composers; Aja Couchois Duncan, Douglas Kearney, librettists;

Cannupa Hanska Luger Cannupa Hanska Luger (born 1979) is a Native American interdisciplinary artist based in New Mexico whose community-oriented artworks address indigenous peoples, environmental justice and gender violence issues. Luger is an enrolled citizen of t ...

, Yuval Sharon, directors; Marc Lowenstein, Jenny Wong, conductors)

References

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