“In a move that will bolster its growing opera credentials, the Los Angeles Philharmonic is teaming up with Yuval Sharon, the artistic director of the Industry, the L.A.-based experimental opera company, for a three-year residency to begin in the 2016-17 season,” writes David Ng in Thursday’s (9/3) Los Angeles Times. “Sharon will be named as the orchestra’s artist-collaborator, a newly created post that will involve curating projects for the orchestra … at Walt Disney Concert Hall as well as other venues around L.A…. Sharon said he expects to be involved with three to five projects per year with the orchestra…. Sharon … founded the Industry in L.A. in 2010. The company has produced works such as ‘Crescent City’ and ‘Invisible Cities,’ the latter of which was a multimedia opera that took place at Union Station in downtown L.A. The upcoming ‘Hopscotch’ is a work by six L.A.-based composers that will unfold in a series of moving cars…. L.A. Philharmonic music and artistic director Gustavo Dudamel said Sharon’s projects ‘challenge us to think differently about how music and the arts can play a part in our lives, and they make us look at the world around us in different ways.’ ”
Posted September 3, 2015
