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Yuval Sharon

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Yuval Sharon
Born1979 (age 44–45)
Naperville, Illinois, United States
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley
Occupations
OrganizationThe Industry
Websiteyuvalsharon.com

Yuval Sharon is an American opera and theater director from Naperville, Illinois, based in Los Angeles.[1] He is the founder and co-artistic director of The Industry Opera.[2] Since 2020, he has served as the Gary L. Wasserman Artistic Director of Detroit Opera.[3]

Early life and education

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Sharon was born in 1979 in Chicago[4] to two Israeli parents. He earned a B.A. in 2001 from the University of California, Berkeley[5] studying English and dramatic arts, before spending a year in Berlin. Seeing Anthony Davis's Amistad[1] and Meredith Monk's Atlas[6] as a college student and his time in Berlin led him towards opera.[7]

Sharon then lived in New York, where he founded a theater company called Theater Faction and worked at the New York City Opera, directing its VOX program from 2006 to 2009, before moving to Los Angeles. He found Los Angeles to be the ideal home for experimental work in opera and founded The Industry to put on innovative productions.[8]

Career

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Sharon serves as co-artistic director of The Industry in Los Angeles, alongside Ash Fure and Malik Gaines.[2] Notable productions include Hopscotch, an opera staged in 24 moving vehicles;[9] a performance installation of Terry Riley's In C at the Hammer Museum; Christopher Cerrone's Invisible Cities, based on the Italo Calvino novel and staged in Union Station (Los Angeles),[10] Anne LeBaron's Crescent City, set in a mythical town loosely based on New Orleans,[11] Sweet Land, an opera about colonialism and history created in collaboration with Cannupa Hanska Luger, Aja Couchois Duncan, Raven Chacon, Du Yun, and Douglas Kearney;[12] and The Comet/Poppea, a double-feature consisting of L'incoronazione di Poppea and an operatic adaptation of W. E. B. Du Bois's short story "The Comet," presented simultaneously on a rotating stage.[13]

From 2017–2019, Sharon was the first-ever artist-collaborator at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where his projects included an original setting of Orson Welles's The War of the Worlds with music by Annie Gosfield, performed both inside and outside Walt Disney Concert Hall simultaneously;[14] the installation Nimbus; a new performance edition of Lou Harrison's Young Caesar;[15] a staging of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with Gustavo Dudamel in Spring 2018;[16] and productions of John Cage's Europeras 1&2 and Meredith Monk's Atlas, for which Sharon became the first-ever outside producer of one of the composer's works.[17]

On September 9, 2020, Yuval Sharon was named the Gary L. Wasserman Artistic Director for the Michigan Opera Theater (as of February 2022 renamed to Detroit Opera). He made his house debut as director that October with Twilight: Gods, an abridged adaptation of Götterdämmerung presented in the Detroit Opera House Parking Center[18] and, with Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Millennium Lakeside Parking Garage. Other Detroit Opera productions have included Ragnar Kjartansson's Bliss—a 12-hour loop of The Marriage of Figaro, which Sharon presented in the Michigan Building's former theater space;[19] a reverse-chronology production of La bohème, staged in Detroit,[20] Boston,[21] Philadelphia,[22] and Spoleto Festival USA;[23] The Valkyries, a staging of Act III of Die Walküre which he premiered with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl;[24][25] and John Cage's Europeras 3&4, staged in the Gem Theatre.[26]

Other projects include a 2012 production of John Cage's Song Books at the San Francisco Symphony and Carnegie Hall with Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk, and Jessye Norman;[27] a 2014 production of John Adams's Doctor Atomic, for which he was awarded a Götz Friedrich Prize; Péter Eötvös's Tri sestry (Three Sisters) at the Vienna State Opera in 2016;[28] a 2016 production of Die Walküre at Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe;[29] productions of Pelléas et Mélisande and The Cunning Little Vixen with the Cleveland Orchestra, the latter of which became the first fully staged opera ever presented in Vienna's historic Musikverein in October 2017; and a 2018 production of Olga Neuwirth's Lost Highway at Oper Frankfurt.[30]

Sharon became the first American director at the Bayreuth Festival with a 2018 production of Lohengrin.[31] In 2019, Sharon premiered a new production of The Magic Flute at the Berlin State Opera.[32] In 2022, Sharon led the premiere production of Proximity, a trio of new operas commissioned by Lyric Opera of Chicago comprising The Walkers by Daniel Bernard Roumain and Anna Deavere Smith, Four Portraits by Caroline Shaw and Jocelyn Clarke; and Night, composed by John Luther Adams with text by the late John Haines.[33] He made his Santa Fe Opera house debut in 2023 with Monteverdi's Orfeo, appearing in a new orchestration by Nico Muhly.[34]

In 2024, the Metropolitan Opera announced that Sharon would direct its next Ring cycle, beginning in the 2027–28 season. He will make his house debut with the company with a production of Tristan und Isolde in 2025–26.[35]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "MusicalAmerica - Director of the Year:Yuval Sharon". www.musicalamerica.com. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  2. ^ a b Staff, Operawire (2021-06-25). "The Industry Announces Significant Changes in Management Structure, Forms Artistic Director Cooperative". OperaWire. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  3. ^ Allen, David (2020-09-09). "An Operatic Innovator Takes On Detroit". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  4. ^ Foundation for Contemporary Arts – Yuval Sharon
  5. ^ a b "Yuval Sharon". MacArthur Foundation.
  6. ^ "Who brought a 36-foot orb into Disney Hall for 'Atlas'? Yup, that guy again". Los Angeles Times. 2019-06-10. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
  7. ^ Allen, David (20 July 2017). "Opera's Disrupter in Residence, Heading to Bayreuth". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  8. ^ Rosenberg, Jeremy (17 May 2012). "Yuval Sharon: L.A.'s Culture Brought and Kept Him Here". KCET. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  9. ^ "The Industry presents Hopscotch: a mobile opera for 24 cars". Hopscotch Opera. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  10. ^ Farber, Jim (22 September 2016). "Harmonic Convergence: Yuval Sharon, The Industry, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Join Forces". San Francisco Classical Voice. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  11. ^ "Crescent City". The Industry. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  12. ^ Barone, Joshua (2020-02-28). "An Opera About Colonialism Shows How History Warps". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  13. ^ Walls, Seth Colter (2024-06-13). "A New Opera Mashes Up Monteverdi and W.E.B. Du Bois". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  14. ^ "Review: 'War of the Worlds': Delirious opera rises from the death and destruction of L.A." Los Angeles Times. 2017-11-14. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  15. ^ "Review: The puppet orgy is back in a triumphant reworking of 'Young Caesar' at Disney Hall". Los Angeles Times. 2017-06-14. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  16. ^ "Yuval Sharon". Los Angeles Philharmonic. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  17. ^ Barone, Joshua (2019-06-04). "Meredith Monk Lets Go of Her Masterpiece". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  18. ^ Barone, Joshua (2020-10-21). "Think Outside the Opera House, and Inside the Parking Garage". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  19. ^ Beddingfield, Duante. "Michigan Opera Theatre stages lavish, 12-hour show in ruins of old Detroit theater". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  20. ^ Binelli, Mark (2022-07-07). "Is the Future of American Opera Unfolding in Detroit?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  21. ^ pagliacci (2022-04-24). "La bohème | Boston Lyric Opera". Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  22. ^ Philadelphia, Opera. "Boheme - La bohème in reverse". Opera Philadelphia. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  23. ^ Bono, Nat (2022-05-29). "PREVIEW: A backwards 'La bohème' lives happily ever after". Charleston City Paper. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  24. ^ "Review: With Yuval Sharon and Gustavo Dudamel at the helm, 'Valkyries' makes history again at the Bowl". Los Angeles Times. 2022-07-18. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  25. ^ OperaWire (2022-09-24). "Detroit Opera 2022-23 Review: The Valkyries". OperaWire. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  26. ^ "L.A. lost Yuval Sharon to Detroit. Here's what we're missing — and what we might win back". Los Angeles Times. 2024-03-18. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  27. ^ "Music review: San Francisco Symphony's John Cage 'Song Books'". Los Angeles Times. 2012-03-15. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  28. ^ "Péter Eötvös' Tri Sestri Receives Raucous Premiere at the Wiener Staatsoper". bachtrack.com. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  29. ^ Apthorp, Shirley (December 14, 2016). "Die Walkure: OPERA". www.ft.com. Financial Times. p. 12. ProQuest 1858204955.
  30. ^ "Review: David Lynch's 'Lost Highway' gets an otherworldly operatic treatment by Yuval Sharon". Los Angeles Times. 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  31. ^ Allen, David (2018-07-26). "Review: Bayreuth's First American Director Arrives With 'Lohengrin'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  32. ^ X; Instagram; Email; Facebook (2019-03-05). "Review: Yuval Sharon brings his L.A. brand of controversy to Berlin with a new 'Magic Flute'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-08-02. {{cite web}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
  33. ^ Woolfe, Zachary (2023-03-26). "Review: In Chicago, an Opera Triptych Reaches for Connection". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  34. ^ Barone, Joshua (2023-08-06). "At Santa Fe Opera, the Oldest Work Is Also the Freshest". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  35. ^ Hernández, Javier C. (2024-08-06). "The Met Opera Plans a New 'Ring' With a Familiar Maestro". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
  36. ^ "Grants to Artists, Performance Art/Theater 2017". Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Retrieved 12 September 2017.

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