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Lucerne Theater presents two of Du Yun's music theater works, which will be heard for the first time in Switzerland. Read More
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The spirit of "Sweet Land" lives on not only on their website where it can be streamed, but in the current real-world push to dispense with symbols of a romanticized past that don’t square with the bloody facts, whether they be town square statues or logos of professional sports teams. Read More
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We need a sense of reckoning with our history. How can art play a role in that? “Sweet Land,” which premieres on Saturday is an attempt by Mr. Sharon — along with a team of collaborators and his innovative company, the Industry — to at least start a conversation. Read More
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The work captures — with a poetry that’s stern yet colorful, oblique yet blunt — the uneasiness of our past and future as a nation defined by brutal oppression and pervasive cultural mixing, and by a history that’s been painfully selective about what it remembers. Read More
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“Sweet Land” would have been a punch in the gut under any circumstances. Chaotic, conflicted, implacably honest, it unfurled a narrative that dismantled its own ideological underpinnings and exposed its own lies. Read More
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A Mystifying Work That Asserts a Sense of Place While Challenging Notion of Opera March 12, 2020by Gordon WilliamsVisit Original... Read More
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about time” is also the overriding theme of the remarkable operatic experience that is Sweet Land — a site-specific, multidimensional collaboration from Yuval Sharon and The Industry. Presented on the former ancestral land of Los Angeles State Historic Park, this panoramic opera experience will be performed through March 15. Then, by design, it will simply fade away. Read More
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March 2, 2020by Mary Von AueRead original article on LA Obeserver When working with a genre as dated as opera,... Read More
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Opera: The Arrivals wash up on the shore. They make contact with another civilization they call “the Hosts.” And from there, the story splinters, following diverging perspectives. Starting as a procession through the LA State Historic Park, Sweet Land becomes an opera that erases itself. Read More
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The "Sweet Land" team have created not only an on-site experience but also an engrossing personal viewing event. During these perilous times, a streaming ticket to Sweet Land while reclining on your couch may prove the best seat in town. Read More
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Sep 30, 2019Will GriffithFull Article As autumn sheds its skin, Beijing Music Festival, long known for shining a spotlight on... Read More
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A new short from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun brings three chapters of her 2005 opera Zolle to the digital screen. A dead... Read More
