Star Choir

The Industry, Mount Wilson Observatory, 2023

An opera by Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade

Costume Design by Natalie Barshow

Lighting Design by Chu-Hsuan Chang

Sound Design by Jonathan Burke

Media Design by Daniel Leyva

Photos by Michael Thomas

About:

The Industry presents the World Premiere of STAR CHOIR, co-directed by Malik Gaines (The Industry’s Co-Artistic Director) and Alexandro Segade, composed by Gaines with Libretto by Segade.

Audiences will embark on a cosmic mission, as a starship crew seeks refuge on the hostile Planet 85K: Aurora. Once there, the colonists encounter intelligent life imperceptible to their all-too-human awareness. As the planet defends itself from their invasive presence, the humans evolve to become a part of the Holobiont, a queerly multi-species organism that covers this world. STAR CHOIR offers a meditation on the challenges and pleasures of mutual coexistence, reimagining humanity as a porous category that must transform to survive.