Confronting Opera as an "Inherently Colonialist Art Form," Yuval Sharon Brings New Work to L.A.
Renowned opera director Yuval Sharon returns to The Industry, the company where he began his career, for The Comet/Poppea. The new piece is quite the mashup, weaving together Monteverdi's 1643 opera The Coronation of Poppea and W.E.B. Du Bois' short story The Comet. The work " composed by Grant Lewis with a libretto by Douglas […]