Katie Grinnan's 'Junk Heap' for Crescent City

…opened tonight, featuring set installations by artist friends Alice Konitz and Katie Grinnan (presenting a bright shiny colorful dramatic ‘Junk Heap’).

Crescent City is a hyperopera with music by Anne LeBaron, libretto by Douglas Kearney, and directed by Yuval Sharon. It’s the inaugural production of The Industry, a new home for new and experimental opera in Los Angeles. The Industry is bringing together over 50 artists from every discipline to create and inhabit the landscape of a mythical city called Crescent City. Anne LeBaron’s raucous, electronica-infused hyperopera, featured twice in New York City Opera’s VOX Showcase, springs to life in an industrial warehouse at Atwater Crossing.