Reception to follow.

ADMISSION:
Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP at the links below beginning Wednesday, December 7, at 9 a.m.

USC Students, Staff, and Faculty: RSVP
USC Alumni: RSVP
General Public: RSVP

DESCRIPTION:
“A masterpiece. Hopscotch has broken the fourth wall with a vengeance.”—The Wall Street Journal

Go beyond “the genteel, fenced-off zone where opera is supposed to reside” (The New Yorker) and join us for the first-ever live concert of songs from Hopscotch, the internationally acclaimed mobile opera that took L.A. by storm in 2015. Hopscotch is “a brilliantly engineered concoction of street theater, animation, video art, installation art, environmental art [and] the lyric stage” (Los Angeles Times) that was performed—in cars—all over L.A. in 2015. The world’s first mobile opera, it became one of the most talked about cultural events of the year. This special evening will be the first live concert of songs from the opera that is changing how we think about opera.

Following the concert, learn more about contemporary opera, performing arts in public spaces, and The Industry, the independent artist-driven company behind Hopscotch, in a speed-dating-style post-show reception with Industry creative-team members, renowned arts journalists, and Hopscotch composers Veronika Krausas, Mark Lowenstein, Andrew McIntosh, Andrew Norman, Ellen Reid, and David Rosenboom. In conjunction with this event, The Industry will launch an interactive Hopscotch documentation project online. 

Yuval Sharon, The Industry’s founder and artistic director, is the recipient of the 2014 Götz Friedrich Prize for his acclaimed production of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic. At The Industry, he has directed Anne LeBaron’s Crescent City; Christopher Cerrone’s award-winning Invisible Cities, which took place at Union Station; and Hopscotch. He directed a landmark production of John Cage’s Song Books at the San Francisco Symphony and Carnegie Hall, as well as Peter Eötvös’s Three Sisters for the Vienna State Opera. He has just begun a three-year residency with the L.A. Philharmonic. (Vimeo)

Related Event:
What Does Hopscotch Sound Like? Opera and Public Space
Friday, January 20, 2017, 4 p.m.
Wallis Annenberg Hall, Room L105A
For more info, click here.

Additional Links:
The Industry Facebook

Organized by Sasha Anawalt (Arts Journalism) and Veronika Krausas (Music).