Yuval Sharon
Director
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His unconventional, media merging productions have made the US American Yuval Sharon one of the most exciting directors of his generation. He is founder and artistic director of The Industry in Los Angeles, an extraordinary and respected ensemble of artists in various fields who stage opera at unusual venues and in open spaces in built up areas; including the world premieres of Hopscotch, Invisible Cities and Crescent City. He has also directed John Cage's Song Books for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the Carnegie Hall with Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk and Jessye Norman. He has begun a three year residency at the Los Angeles Philharmonic where he staged War of the Worlds, the performances taking place inside and outside the concert hall, simultaneously, and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde under Gustavo Dudamel. He returns there soon for John Cage's Europeras 1 & 2. Yuval Sharon's production of John Adams' Doctor Atomic at the Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, which won him the 2014 Götz Friedrich Prize, was followed by Wagner's Die Walküre. Other productions were Eötvös’ Tri sestry / Three Sisters at the Vienna State Opera and The Cunning Little Vixen with the Cleveland Orchestra, which then went to the Musikverein in Vienna and can be seen in Karlsruhe this December. He made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival this summer, with Lohengrin. He directs a new production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin in February 2019.