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The Industry THE INDUSTRY is an independent, artist-driven company creating ambitious productions that expand the definition of opera.

If you are looking for a transformative opera experience this weekend, say no more! Tonight at 7:30pm, our partners at t...
03/03/2023

If you are looking for a transformative opera experience this weekend, say no more!

Tonight at 7:30pm, our partners at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents Sing for Hope's production of Pauline García Viardot's lost 1867 comic opera "Le Dernier Sorcier (The Last Sorceror)," a feminist eco-fable in operatic form and perfectly timed to kick off Women's History Month!

Featuring 2022-23 Artists-in-Residence sopranos Monica Yunus and Camille Zamora, the cast is rounded out by baritone (and Sweet Land performer) Babatunde Hip Hopera, mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala, and the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus Chamber Singers.

Get tickets at bit.ly/thelastsorceror. Use the code SORCEROR for a 20% discount off select seats.

If you are looking for something to do in Venice Beach the first weekend of March, you should check out "Venice" from ou...
02/16/2023

If you are looking for something to do in Venice Beach the first weekend of March, you should check out "Venice" from our partners at Home L A!

Join homeLA on March 4th and 5th for "Venice," a site-specific interdisciplinary performance event with artists Stephanie Dai, Young Joon Kwak & Kim Ye, Emily Marchand, Jobel Medina, and Flora Wiegmann & Maya Gurantz at the long-time canal-side home of Mark Mack and Faiza Alhassoun in Venice Beach.

"Venice" unfolds as a melange of lite salon-style moments of dance, performance art, music, sound, drama, activism, humor, and house party vibes with artist work that responds to this family home, its modernist architecture, and the history of Abbot Kinney’s “Venice of America.”

To purchase tickets, head to bit.ly/homelavenice.

It's been nearly a month since LAB 2022, but we're still riding the high of what was a successful night of experimental ...
01/11/2023

It's been nearly a month since LAB 2022, but we're still riding the high of what was a successful night of experimental opera! It was inspiring to see these genre-defying works from our emerging artists; Mariah Garnett, H Sinno and Richard Kennedy, as well as the amazing performers and crews who worked with them. We'd like to thank everyone who came and showed their support, as we hope there will be more LABs in the future.

In the meantime, check out these lovely photos from Ian Byers-Gamber from LAB 2022. And stay tuned for more info about our exciting projects in 2023 👀!

Happy New Year from The Industry!Our New Year Resolution is to post more about our wonderful company members and the awe...
01/04/2023

Happy New Year from The Industry!

Our New Year Resolution is to post more about our wonderful company members and the awesome things they are doing in LA and around the world!

First up, Industry company member Sharon Chohi Kim presents and performs in "Hope is a Hammer," an interdisciplinary collaborative performance directed and produced by Kim and Elana Mann, at Human Resources tomorrow, Jan 4 at 7:30pm.

Through immersive sound, sculpture, text, and movement, “Hope is a Hammer” confronts the silencing of women’s voices and the struggle for body sovereignty, while offering strategies for collective empowerment. The performance includes music by Kim and Corey Fogel, text by Carol Ockman, choreography by Stephanie Zaletel, sculpture and set design by Elana Mann, and costume design by Jill Spector. Kim and Fogel will activate Mann’s sonic sculptures through voice and percussion, along with a group of musicians. They will play hand-horn megaphones, a ten-foot six-person protest horn, and ceramic rattles, culminating with a procession.

This event is free to the public. For more info, head to h-r.la.

12/17/2022

Last but not least, LA-based artist and filmmaker Mariah Garnett’s collaborative work “Exhaustion Laments.” We can’t wait for you to celebrate this and other operas-in-progress with us tomorrow!

About:
This material is part a new body of operatic works responding to diaries and a never-realized score written by Garnett’s great-great aunt Ruth in Cairo in 1935. The diaries insinuate that the opera was written in collaboration with a spirit, and a picture emerges of an isolated and talented woman artist plagued by fear, trauma and illness, who found a measure of healing through music and spirit communication. Garnett and her collaborators not only resurrect fragments of the original score, but collectively create new works that examine the condition of being an artist operating at the margins today.

The project asks of all its participants, “where do you find the spiritual fortitude to continue as an artist in the face of financial precarity, institutional racism, gender bias, multi-level capitalist extraction and the exhaustion that all of this foments?” In response, they attempt a kind of alchemy, weaving together different configurations of love, empowerment, survival, and familial and human connection through music and film. In the rescoring of these works, Garnett delves into questions around legacy and dealing with the impact of colonial violence on place within her own family history.

12/17/2022

Last but not least, LA-based artist and filmmaker Mariah Garnett’s collaborative work “Exhaustion Laments.” This material is part a new body of operatic works responding to diaries and a never-realized score written by Garnett’s great-great aunt Ruth in Cairo in 1935. The diaries insinuate that the opera was written in collaboration with a spirit, and a picture emerges of an isolated and talented woman artist plagued by fear, trauma and illness, who found a measure of healing through music and spirit communication. Garnett and her collaborators not only resurrect fragments of the original score, but collectively create new works that examine the condition of being an artist operating at the margins today.

The project asks of all its participants, “where do you find the spiritual fortitude to continue as an artist in the face of financial precarity, institutional racism, gender bias, multi-level capitalist extraction and the exhaustion that all of this foments?” In response, they attempt a kind of alchemy, weaving together different configurations of love, empowerment, survival, and familial and human connection through music and film. In the rescoring of these works, Garnett delves into questions around legacy and dealing with the impact of colonial violence on place within her own family history.

12/17/2022

Next up, a highlight of H. Sinno’s “Westerly Breath” - be sure to catch it tomorrow at LAB!

About: New York-based musician H Sinno has been the writer and front-person for Lebanese indie band Mashrouʼ Leila since 2008.

H’s new lecture/performance/opera Westerly Breath will premiere in Fall 2023 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, at the Ancient Egyptian Temple of Dendur. The work weaves Ancient Egyptian myth, architecture, immigration, autobiography, and the history of speech synthesis to explore the voice as a site of political embodiment.

12/16/2022

Here’s a sneak peek of Richard Kennedy’s “Zeferina,” one of three amazing works-in-progress featured in LAB tomorrow!

Have you gotten your tickets yet? 🎟️🎫
https://theindustryla.org/projects/lab-2022

About:
Berlin-based artist, experiential composer, and librettist Richard Kennedy’s “Zeferina,” is an interpretive translation of “Chapter 6: The Historical Archeology of the Black Radical Tradition” from the book Black Marxism. It explores the genesis of Black resistance and the roots of Black social liberation movements in the Americas. The presence of Maroon communities in the colonies fostered a world within the new world that often caused revolt. For Zeferina, who led The Hausa Revolts (1808-1835), she was ultimately subdued and her arms taken from her.

Tomorrow, The Industry will present LAB 2022 at the Los Angeles Theater Center, a full day of operas-in-progress by arti...
12/16/2022

Tomorrow, The Industry will present LAB 2022 at the Los Angeles Theater Center, a full day of operas-in-progress by artists redefining what opera can be.

Berlin-based artist, experiential composer, and librettist Richard Kennedy will workshop "Zeferina," an interpretive translation of “Chapter 6: The Historical Archeology of the Black Radical Tradition” from the book "Black Marxism." It explores the genesis of Black resistance and the roots of Black social liberation movements in the Americas. The presence of Maroon communities in the colonies fostered a world within the new world that often caused revolt. For Zeferina, who led The Hausa Revolts (1808-1835), she was ultimately subdued and her arms taken from her.

"Zeferina" includes performances by Alissa Brianna, Zeelie Brown, Brittney Campbell, Isaiah Cook, Nahir Francis, Xander Gaines, Kyle Kidd, Reyna Pannell, RaShonda Reeves & Donna Vivino.

Get your tickets for "Zeferina" and the rest of LAB 2022 by heading to bit.ly/theindustrylab.

In two days(!), The Industry will present LAB 2022 at the Los Angeles Theater Center, a full day of operas-in-progress b...
12/15/2022

In two days(!), The Industry will present LAB 2022 at the Los Angeles Theater Center, a full day of operas-in-progress by artists redefining what opera can be.

LA-based video artist Mariah Garnett will workshop "Exhaustion Laments," a new body of operatic works responding to diaries and a never-realized score written by their great-great aunt Ruth in Cairo in 1935. Working with librettist Raphaël Khouri and an anonymous arranger, the diaries insinuate that the opera was written in collaboration with a spirit, and a picture emerges of an isolated and talented woman artist plagued by fear, trauma and illness, who found a measure of healing through music and spirit communication.

The workshop performance will feature performers Jessika Kenney, Holland Andrews, and eddy kwon, soprano Breanna Sinclairé , tenor Christopher Paul Craig, and instrumentalists Joy Guidry, Theodosia Roussos and Miller Wrenn.

Get your tickets for "Exhaustion Laments" and the rest of LAB 2022 by heading to bit.ly/theindustrylab.

The creative teams and performers for LAB 2022 have arrived! Here are photos from our LAB 2022 mixer this past Monday.In...
12/15/2022

The creative teams and performers for LAB 2022 have arrived! Here are photos from our LAB 2022 mixer this past Monday.

In two days, The Industry will present three amazing operas-in-progress by Mariah Garnett, H Sinno, and Richard Kennedy at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in downtown LA. In the meantime, our teams have been rehearsing and experimenting throughout week, and we're excited to show you what they will present!

Come see what the future of opera looks like by heading to bit.ly/theindustrylab.

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