Posts by The Industry
The Industry’s Story of 2020
How do we even start to encapsulate this bewildering year – one that is marked by so much grieving and uncertainty? As unfathomable events that unfolded throughout 2020 were like works of fiction, bad dreams, or worse. And like all nightmares we all had to wake up, and for most of us we also had…
Read MoreTwo New The Industry Company Members!
We are thrilled to welcome two Company Members, projection designer Jason H. Thompson and bass James Hayden. Jason has been creating visual worlds with The Industry from the very first production Crescent City, then for Invisible Cities, Hopscotch, and Young Caesar. While James has had some of the more memorable roles in The Industry’s recent…
Read MoreThe Industry’s 2018 Year In Review: A Momentum Year
The Industry premieres experimental artist-driven productions every other year, with smaller-scale yet artistically ambitious programs between them — both of which work towards our goal of expanding the definition of opera. In these “between years,” our focus is momentum. It’s the momentum from previous productions that brings artistic and civic innovation to LA, gives artists…
Read MoreYuval Sharon Reflects on The Industry’s production of John Cage’s Europeras 1 & 2
Joyous, anarchic, sometimes even silly: on the surface, our production of Europeras 1 & 2 might trick you into believing it was little more than a comedic romp through operatic history. An audience member who wandered into Sony Pictures Studios’ Stage 23 and left smiling may not know what a profound and invigorating experience the…
Read MoreYuval Sharon and The Industry in Bayreuth: Reflections
In July 2018, executive director Elizabeth Cline, music director Marc Lowenstein, and a group of 12 The Industry supporters traveled to the Bayreuth Festspiele to experience Yuval Sharon’s monumental Lohengrin production, where he was the first American to direct a production in it’s 142 year history. Elizabeth and Marc reflect on their time in Bayreuth.…
Read MoreJohn Cage Source Material
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John Cage and the California Experimentalists
In preparation for our next production, John Cage’s Europeras 1 & 2, which premieres on November 6 at Sony Pictures Studios in partnership with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, we asked our Music Director Marc Lowenstein to give some insight into the work of John Cage and The Industry’s Highway One series, which pays homage to the great…
Read MoreA first look at GALILEO documentation
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Never-Before-Seen YOUNG CAESER production photos
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An interview with WAR OF THE WORLDS composer Annie Gosfield
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