He is founder and co-Artistic Director of The Industry in Los Angeles and the Gary L. Yuval Sharon (director) has amassed an unconventional body of work that expands the operatic form.
Recent highlights include Kensho’s debuts with the London Philharmonic and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestras, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Rhode Island Philharmonic, as well as his Finnish debut with the Jyväskylä Sinfonia. Watanabe has previously been an inaugural conducting fellow of the Curtis Institute of Music from 2013 to 2015. Recently recognized as a recipient of a Career Assistance Award by the Solti Foundation U.S, Kensho held the position of Assistant Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra from 2016 to 2019. Kensho Watanabe (conductor) is fast emerging onto the international stage as one of the most exciting and versatile young conductors to come out of the United States. It is sung in Italian with English supertitles. La bohème is a co-production with Michigan Opera Theatre, Spoleto Festival USA, and Boston Lyric Opera. You can find out for yourself at the Festival beginning Saturday, May 28. “There are big questions invoked when we perform a classic like La bohème in a non-traditional way, such as: how and why do we perform masterpieces in the here and now? What is to be gained by disrupting conventional listening?” With its four starving artists preserved in eternal youth and dusted with the blush of love, Sharon takes this new piece of opera and breathes in the old pieces in the freshest of ways – a bohemian work of art in itself. “The more that we create new pieces, the more we’ll hear these old pieces in new ways.”Īnd that is just what happens during this 1 hour, 45 minute production. That’s right – he has produced the opera in reverse. Sharon puts his eccentric twist on Puccini’s classic masterpiece by starting with Act IV and ending with Act I. Known for his operas in moving vehicles, operating train stations, Hollywood sound stages, and various “non-spaces” such as warehouses, parking lots, and escalator corridors, Yuval Sharon commands attention as director in his latest work of art with La bohème. Spoleto is known for its diverse programming-across genres, across continents, and across familiarities, and while seeing a classic like Puccini’s La bohème listed on the schedule may have you thinking otherwise, you may want to look a little deeper.
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