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Charismatically disorienting and downright dazzling. It’s tempting to call The Industry’s daring new opera event, Invisible Cities, performed in the public areas of LA Union Station, a flash mob—except flash mobs don’t sell out tickets way in advance. The Industry is director Yuval Sharon’s upstart Los Angeles opera company devoted to deconstructing the traditional modes of contemporary opera staging.
(At the particular performance we attended, it was particularly gratifying to see a young woman carrying a toddler become absolutely entranced by the surprise performance suddenly going on around her. Exclaiming that she’d “never seen anything like this,” she and her young son joined the crowd walking from one part of the station to another where the performance was going on, and members of the audience intermittently took turns lending her their headsets so she could experience the full dynamic of the production. Really a heartwarming civic moment.) "
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Lyle Zimskind, LAist