Productions
A $60k Pledge Towards Hopscotch
We have until July 10 to match a generous $60,000 donation from Kiki and David Gindler — click here to help us reach our goal by July 10! You know The Industry loves a good challenge, whether it’s wireless operas in train stations or a single opera divided into 24 cars. But we’ve never had…
Read MoreLiving the Dream of Invisible Cities
This week, Chris Cerrone, composer of INVISIBLE CITIES, writes about the creation of the opera’s studio recording. The album will be available as a digital download and limited-edition CD box set on November 4th, 2014. Creating a recording of INVISIBLE CITIES has long been a dream of mine.
Read MoreOld Friends: Conducting & Recording Invisible Cities
Hi! I’m Marc Lowenstein, Music Director for The Industry. I wanted to talk to you about is the new recording of Chris Cerrone’s INVISIBLE CITIES. We finished the studio recording about two weeks ago
Read MoreHopscotch Crescendo: Feet On The Ground
At the time I was voted onto the board of The Industry I knew very little about opera. I run a small literary publisher called tNY.Press and our focus is experimental fiction; works that avoid classification and push forward the written word, but remain generally accessible. Artistic Director Yuval Sharon’s charisma, open-mindedness, and ridiculous ambition pulled…
Read MoreA Mobile Opera for 18 Cars: Our New Operatic Experience is in the Works!
Looking back, it’s hard to imagine a time before INVISIBLE CITIES was a success story. But the path there was anything but certain: creating that production was an enormous leap of faith for everyone involved—artists, funders, transit authorities, you name it. In the many sleepless nights leading up to opening night, I needed a tactic…
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