LA’s avant-garde opera darling” (Hollywood Reporter) Yuval Sharon has been creating an unconventional body of work exploring the interdisciplinary potential of opera. His productions have been described as “thrilling” (New York Times), “virtuosic” (Opernwelt), “dizzyingly spectacular” (New York Magazine), “ingenious” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “staggering” (Opera News). He is the recipient of the 2014 Götz Friedrich Prize in Germany for his acclaimed production of John Adams’ Doctor Atomic, originally produced at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe. Yuval founded and serves as Artistic Director of The Industry, an experimental opera company in Los Angeles, where his inaugural production of Anne LeBaron’s hyperopera Crescent City was praised by the Los Angeles Times as “groundbreaking” and “reshaping LA opera.” His second production with The Industry, Christopher Cerrone’s Invisible Cities, took place among the everyday life of Union Station, with audiences hearing the live performance on wireless headphones. The production, a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Music and hailed as “the opera of the future” by Wired Magazine, was a runaway success, with 9 performances added by popular demand and an international tour currently in development. Yuval also directed a landmark production of John Cage’s Song Books at the San Francisco Symphony and Carnegie Hall with Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk, and Jessye Norman. Yuval was Project Director for four years of New York City Opera’s VOX, an annual workshop of new American opera, which became the most important crucible for new opera in the country under his direction. He was assistant director to Achim Freyer on the Los Angeles Ring Cycle and Associate Director of the world premiere of Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht with Graham Vick for the London 2012 Cultural Olympics. Upcoming projects include Henze’s English Cat for the Vienna Staatsoper, Daphne for the Cleveland Orchestra, and the world premiere of Hopscotch for The Industry, an opera happening in 18 car journeys throughout Los Angeles.