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Sweet Land: A site-specific opera in downtown LA streams online

on April 17, 2020

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

LA Times: ‘Sweet Land’ astonishes. Opera in an L.A. park examines what it means to be American

on March 12, 2020

“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

“Sweet Land” – Album is The New Yorker’s Notable Recordings of 2021

on December 12, 2021

Notable Recordings of 2021 December 9, 2021by Alex Ross for The New Yorker Ten Notable Performances of 2021 Notable Recordings... Read More

‘Sweet Land’ Review: A Journey Through History

on March 10, 2020

by Heidi Waleson for The Wall Street JournalMarch 10, 2020 With “Hopscotch” in 2015, The Industry, Los Angeles’s audacious indie... Read More

New York Times Review: An Opera Erases and Rewrites the American Myth

on March 9, 2020

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

Alex Ross Selects “Sweet Land” and “A Cockroach’s Tarantella” as Notable Performances and Recordings of 2020

on December 12, 2020

Notable Performances and Recordings of 2020 December 12, 2020by Alex Ross for The New Yorker At the close of a... Read More

New York Times Preview: An Opera About Colonialism Shows How History Warps

on February 28, 2020

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

New Yorker Review: An Open-Air Opera, Cut Short by Social Distancing

on March 31, 2020

“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

Myth-busting Opera “Sweet Land” Lives on Long After Final Curtain

on July 21, 2020

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

Sweet Land

Sweet Land: A site-specific opera in downtown LA streams online

LA Times: ‘Sweet Land’ astonishes. Opera in an L.A. park examines what it means to be American

“Sweet Land” – Album is The New Yorker’s Notable Recordings of 2021

‘Sweet Land’ Review: A Journey Through History

New York Times Review: An Opera Erases and Rewrites the American Myth

Alex Ross Selects “Sweet Land” and “A Cockroach’s Tarantella” as Notable Performances and Recordings of 2020

New York Times Preview: An Opera About Colonialism Shows How History Warps

New Yorker Review: An Open-Air Opera, Cut Short by Social Distancing

Myth-busting Opera “Sweet Land” Lives on Long After Final Curtain

LA Times Essential Arts: ‘Sweet Land’ picks apart the myth of America in opera

LA Times: ‘Sweet Land’s’ radical design uses Los Angeles to rethink the architecture of opera

Spring’s Best Opera Reveals an Art Form Rapidly Innovating

“In Our Daughter’s Eyes” – is The New Yorker’s Notable Performances of 2022

Du Yun receives the 2023 Vilcek Prize in Music

Du Yun received the 2022 Creative Capital Award

“Sweet Land” – Album is The New Yorker’s Notable Recordings of 2021

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