5 Questions
What is Yuval Sharon known for?
Being an opera director
What is The Industry?
A Los Angeles-based opera company
What is Twilight: Gods?
An opera by Richard Wagner
What award did Yuval Sharon receive for his production of John Adams's Doctor Atomic?
The Götz Friedrich Prize
What is the MacArthur Fellowship?
A fellowship for artists and intellectuals
Study Notes
- Yuval Sharon is an unconventional opera director and founder of The Industry in Los Angeles.
- He is also the Gary L. Wasserman Artistic Director of Detroit Opera.
- Sharon directed Twilight: Gods, an innovative adaptation of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung staged in parking garages.
- He has directed and produced new operas in moving vehicles, train stations, sound stages, and non-spaces like warehouses and parking lots.
- Sharon was the first Artist-Collaborator at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, creating nine projects.
- He was the first American to direct at Bayreuth, with a boldly progressive Lohengrin in 2018.
- Sharon received the 2014 Götz Friedrich Prize in Germany for his production of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic.
- He directed a landmark production of John Cage’s Song Books at the San Francisco Symphony and Carnegie Hall.
- Sharon was honored with a MacArthur Fellowship and a Foundation for Contemporary Art grant for theater in 2017.
- He is known for his innovative and site-specific productions that expand the operatic form.
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