Yuval Sharon
Yuval Sharon (born 1979 in Naperville , near Chicago , Illinois ) is an American opera and theater director.
Life
Yuval Sharon's parents are from Israel. He studied English literature with a minor in dramaturgy and Slavic literature at the University of California, Berkeley . He gained his first experience as an assistant director with Saint François d'Assise at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , with Aida at the Bregenz Festival and with Achim Freyers Ring in Los Angeles. His first production followed in 2003 with the Orestie at the Ensemble Theater Faction.
In 2012, Sharon was Associate Director of Graham Vick at the world premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Wednesday of Light during the London 2012 Cultural Olympics. He is the founder and artistic director of the independent theater company The Industry in Los Angeles, where his premieres of the hyperopera Crescent City by Anne LeBaron in 2012 and the opera Invisible Cities by Christopher Cerrone in 2013 caused a sensation. Together with Jessye Norman , Meredith Monk & Joan La Barbara , he brought 2013 Songbooks from John Cage to the stage in Miami, San Francisco and in the Carnegie Hall were listed.
One of his more recent works is Péter Eötvös ' Tri Sestri at the Vienna State Opera .
His staging of the opera Doctor Atomic by John Adams in 2014 at the Karlsruhe State Theater received the Götz Friedrich Prize . In 2017 Sharon was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship .
For the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst , Sharon created a semi-staged film version of Leoš Janáček's Schlauer Vüchslein .
In 2018 he staged Richard Wagner's Lohengrin at the Bayreuth Festival under the musical direction of Christian Thielemann .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Foundation for Contemporary Arts - Yuval Sharon
- ^ John Cage Song Books. Retrieved January 1, 2019 .
- ↑ News, Staatstheater Karlsruhe, accessed on November 27, 2015
- ↑ Yuval Sharon, 37, opera director and producer living in Los Angeles , NPR October 11, 2017, accessed October 8, 2018
- ↑ Michael Weiser: Ceremony for the boy wonder
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sharon, Yuval |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American theater and opera director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naperville , near Chicago , Illinois |