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Victoria Looseleaf previews "Sweet Land" for San Francisco Classical Voice Read More
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February 27, 2020by Jessica GeltRead Original Article Toss out everything you thought you knew about the land you are currently... 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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February 29, 2020by Carolina A. MirandaVisit original LA Times article Greetings, humans. It’s Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los... 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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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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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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March 10, 2020by Mark SwedVisit original article at LA Times Do you believe in zeitgeists? I do. The German for... Read More
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by Heidi Waleson for The Wall Street JournalMarch 10, 2020 With “Hopscotch” in 2015, The Industry, Los Angeles’s audacious indie... 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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March 12, 2020by Carolina A. MirandaVisit original article at LA Times It is an opera about land whose main set... Read More
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“Sweet Land” is opera as astonishment. To say that Sharon has changed the operatic landscape by changing the physical landscape of opera is glibly obvious. That is what he has done but in ways — musically, visually, theatrically, environmentally, historically — that are not glib and far from obvious. So, what is “Sweet Land”? It’s too early to say, which is one of its many remarkable and remarkably confusing glories. Read More
