Opera Unbound
This course explores contemporary opera writ large: where it comes from, what it carries and how it might yet transform.
Led by the core creative team of The Industry (Ash Fure, Malik Gaines, and Yuval Sharon), LA's foremost experimental opera company and this year's Wanlass Artists-in-Residence, students will engage up close and personally with a host of LA-based creatives asking questions about how we sound, why we gather, and where we turn to grapple with the pressing questions of our time.
Coursework will involve listening, reading, and discussion as well as hands-on collaborative experiments in operatic design. Site visits to specific locations of past and present Industry productions as well as class trips to live performances across LA will punctuate the term. Class will culminate in a day of public site-specific performances staged at unexpected locations across the Occidental campus.