Anarchy at the Opera - Yuval Sharon
Visionary opera director Yuval Sharon will present the 2025 Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Family Lectures May 6, 13, and 20, 2025, which will consist of three public lectures and a special performance of John Cage’s Europera 5. All events are free and open to the public.
Lecture 1: "Anarchy at the Opera"
May 6, 2025, 6 to 7:30 p.m. CDT
Lecture 2: "Burn Down the Opera Houses!"
May 13, 2025, 6 to 7:30 p.m. CDT
* Book signing immediately following this lecture (Seminary Co-op will be selling this day at the venue)
Lecture 3: “John Cage and Anarchic Opera” and Performance: John Cage’s Europera 5
May 20, 2025, 6 to 8:30 p.m. CDT
All lectures and performances will take place at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Performance Hall, 915 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637.
A 2017 MacArthur fellow, Sharon is widely celebrated as one of the opera world’s most innovative and inspiring figures. During the 2024-25 academic year, Sharon has been the inaugural Global Solutions Visiting Fellow at UChicago’s Neubauer Collegium. He is currently the Gary L. Wasserman Artistic Director at the Detroit Opera.
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Known as opera's "disrupter-in-residence," director Yuval Sharon has never adhered to the art form's conventions. In his many productions in both the United States and Europe, he constantly challenges the perception of opera as aloof by urging, among other things: performing operas in "non-...