Lyric Opera 2022-2023 Issue 9 - Proximity

35 | Lyric Opera of Chicago parking lots, and escalator corridors. From 2016 to 2019, Sharon was the rst Artist-Collaborator at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, creating nine projects that included newly commissioned works, site-speci c installations, and performances outside the hall. His residency culminated in a major revival of Meredith Monk’s opera ATLAS . The rst American ever invited to direct at Bayreuth, Sharon directed Lohengrin there in 2018. He is the recipient of the 2014 Götz Friedrich Prize in Germany for his production of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic , originally produced at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe and later presented in Seville’s Teatro de la Maestranza. He directed John Cage’s Song Books at the San Francisco Symphony and Carnegie Hall with Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk, and Jessye Norman. His production of The Cunning Little Vixen , originally produced at the Cleveland Orchestra, was the rst fully-staged opera ever presented in Vienna’s Musikverein in October 2017. That year, Sharon was honored with a MacArthur Fellowship and a Foundation for Contemporary Art grant for theater. JASON H. THOMPSON | PRODUCTION DESIGNER Previously at Lyric: Twilight: Gods (2020/21). The versatile designer recently received an LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Vietgone . He has also been awarded The Kinetic Lighting Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatrical Design, and received two Ovation Awards for Chavez Ravine (Projection Design) and Venice [Projection Design]. Select international credits include: Lost Highway (Oper Frankfurt), Die Walküre (Karlsruhe, Germany), Tri Sestri (Vienna State Opera), Tarza and Frozen Sing A-Long (Shanghai Disneyland). Broadway credits include Baby, It’s You! . Other key projects include Twilight: Gods (Detroit Opera), A Trip to the Moon and Young Caesar (LA Phil), Hopscotch and Invisible Cities (The Industry), Cage Songbooks (Carnegie Hall), Chavez Ravin e, The Steward of Christendom , Venice , This Beautiful City , Palomino , Throw Me from the Burnpile and Light Me Up (Center Theatre Group), Behavior of Broadus (Sacred Fools), Venice and The Great Immensity (Public Theatre), The Cunning Little Vixen (Cleveland Orchestra), and Wingman (Ars Nova). Thompson has worked at a number of regional theaters including The Guthrie, KC Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Signature Theatre in D.C., Geffen Playhouse, and South Coast Repertory Theatre, and has created four video installations for the Petersen Auto Museum in Los Angeles. KAITLYN PIETRAS | PRODUCTION DESIGNER Previously at Lyric: Twilight: Gods (2020/21). Pietras is a visual artist with a background in architecture and scenic design. She has received three LA Drama Critics Circle Awards for Revenge Song , Vietgone , and RII . Pietras’s design for Mojada was featured in the US Exhibit for the Prague Quadrennial in 2019. Select opera credits include: The Valkyries (LA Phil, Detroit Opera), Twilight: Gods (Detroit Opera), Lost Highway (Oper Frankfurt), and A Trip to the Moon and Young Caesar (LA Phil). Other key projects include Gun & Powder (Signature Theatre), unseen , How to Catch Creation , Mother Road , Unison , and Mojada (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), and Revenge Song , Key Largo , and Mysterious Circumstances (Geffen Playhouse). CARLOS J. SOTO | COSTUME DESIGNER Lyric debut The New York-based designer and creative director’s credits include Tristan und Isolde (Santa Fe Opera, with Zack Winokur); Only An Octave Apart with Justin Vivian Bond and Anthony Roth Costanzo (St. Ann’s Warehouse, Wilton’s Music Hall); The No One’s Rose by composer Matthew Aucoin and choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith (Stanford Live); and The Black Clown with Davóne Tines (ART, Lincoln Center, 2018/19). Other recent highlights include Passage with Solange Knowles & Wu Tsang (International Woolmark Prize 2021), In Past Pupils and Smiles with Knowles (Venice Biennale, 2019), Witness! (Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg and Sydney Opera House, 2019/20), and When I Get Home ( lm and concert tour 2019). Costumes and scenography credits include Wagner’s The Valkyries by Yuval Sharon (Detroit Opera). Soto has collaborated closely with Robert Wilson since 1997, most recently on Bach 6 Solo , Der Messias , and I was sitting on my patio this guy appeared I thought I was hallucinating . JODY ELFF | SOUND DESIGNER Lyric debut The Grammy Award-winning audio engineer, sound artist, and designer has mixed countless televised concert events including several MTV Video Music Awards, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga’s One Last Time at Radio City Music Hall, the South Park 25th Anniversary concert, and Metallica’s All Within My Hands bene t. Elff’s recording work includes the Yo-Yo Ma/Silk Road Ensemble album Sing Me Home , and Chris Thile’s Laysongs . His has provided sound design for LA Phil, Lincoln Center Festival, The Industry, and numerous others. His ne art sound works have been presented at museums and galleries internationally, including collaborations with David Lang and Diller Sco dio + Renfro on Musings on a Glass Box at Foundation Cartier in Paris and The Mile Long Opera. Elff has developed patented audio technologies for real-time mixing of high-channel-count music events over distance.