Posts by The Industry
Introducing The Industry’s Artistic Director Cooperative
We are so pleased to introduce our two new Co-Artistic Directors Malik Gaines and Ash Fure, who will join our Founder Yuval Sharon in forming The Industry’s Artistic Director Cooperative. This inaugural team of three will work together to envision and expand The Industry’s artistic programming through 2024. It’s thrilling to be part of LA’s…
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“ It is the single best deal in all of opera right now, and that is taking into account the sudden riches of free opera streams from the world’s most illustrious companies.” — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times Dear Friend, Working with the video team on this unexpected video version of Sweet Land has been a bittersweet experience: bitter for the…
Read MoreSweet Land Workshop
When The Industry sets out to make a large-scale multidisciplinary production, it is crucial that each element has time to develop and coalesce with the next. And because we are making opera and music is driving the work a musical workshop becomes a particularly significant step in the process. In early May, we workshopped our…
Read MoreAn interview with YOUNG CAESAR designers Jason H. Thompson and Kaitlyn Pietras
Jason, you have worked as a designer on several productions with The Industry. Which projects have you produced, and how did your relationship with The Industry begin? Jason: I’ve worked as the Projection Designer on Crescent City opera and Invisible Cities, and as the Production Designer for Hopscotch. It all started when I met Yuval in…
Read MoreAn interview with FIRST TAKE artist Laura Karpman
The third installment of FIRST TAKE is this weekend, and we pulled Laura Karpman out of rehearsal to discuss her opera BALLS. The opera dramatizes the tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs and draws on the comedic, dramatic, and hugely political nature of this match. “The Battle of the Sexes” changed not…
Read MoreInvisible Cities film screening
In anticipation of a DVD release of INVISIBLE CITIES, The Industry’s 2013 breakthrough production at Union Station, a free screening of the filmed version will be shown on Sunday, October 16 at 5:00pm at the historic Warner Grand Theater. Shot live with two steady cams as part of KCET’s Emmy Award-winning documentary, the filmed version of INVISIBLE…
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