Yuval Sharon is an American opera and theater director from Naperville, Illinois, based in Los Angeles.
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Yuval Sharon earned a B A in 2001 from the University of California, Berkeley studying English and dramatic arts, before spending a year in Berlin.
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Yuval Sharon then lived in New York, where he founded a theater company called Theater Faction and worked at the New York City Opera, directing its VOX program from 2006 to 2009, before moving to Los Angeles.
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Yuval Sharon found Los Angeles to be the ideal home for experimental work in opera and founded The Industry to put on innovative productions.
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Yuval Sharon continues to serve as artistic director of The Industry in Los Angeles, dedicated to new and experimental opera.
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Yuval Sharon has done two performance installations: Terry Riley's In C at the Hammer Museum and Nimbus at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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Yuval Sharon is currently artist-collaborator at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where his projects will include an original setting of Orson Welles's The War of the Worlds, with music by Annie Gosfield, performed both inside and outside the concert hall simultaneously in Fall 2017, and a staging of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with Gustavo Dudamel in Spring 2018.
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Yuval Sharon directed John Cage's Song Books at the San Francisco Symphony and Carnegie Hall with Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk, and Jessye Norman.
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Yuval Sharon will be the first American director at the Bayreuth Festival in 2018.
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