Composer George Lewis Gets Struck by a Comet
By Craig Byrd
6/13/24 Cultural Attaché
Director Yuval Sharon, Founder and Co-Artistic Director of The Industry [Sweet Land, Invisible Cities Hopscotch], never shies away from making bold choices. Certainly his desire to find a way to bring Monteverdi’s 1643 opera, L’incoronazione di Poppea into our modern age is amongst them. Though he wasn’t entirely sure how to do it. Until he spoke with composer George Lewis at a conference at Columbia University in New York.