Our Voice Is Not at the End of Anything
Carmina Escobar
WORLD PREMIERE
- Price
- $25*
- Genres
- Music, Theater
- Season
- Winter/Spring 2026
- DATE
- FEB 20-22
- TIME
- FRI-SAT, 8 PM
SAT-SUN, 3 PM
- RUNTIME
- Approx. 90 minutes, with intermission
- COUNTRY
- USA
- PROGRAM
- Not yet available
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About
The Industry celebrates the return of its LAB series, in partnership with REDCAT, featuring new works in opera by renowned artists Guillermo E. Brown, Carmina Escobar, and Matana Roberts.
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Soaring vocal artist Carmina Escobar presents Our Voice Is Not at the End of Anything, a spiral-structured opera in gesture and sound that reimagines voice as force, friction, and breath. Across the opera each turn of the spiral asks a question: What is a voice when it is not heard but held, when it resists power, when it becomes collective? Moving through war, grief, and renewal, the work explores the voice-body as an instrument of resistance and repair—a living echo that insists on art, connection, and survival at the edge of collapse.
Guillermo E. Brown and Carmina Escobar share a program.
Please note: This program contains flashing lights, loud sounds, and mature content.
LAB 2026 / Guillermo E. Brown / Matana Roberts
can make her voice sound like insects dancing on dry leaves or a rocket ship dying in space
—
Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
LAB 2026 is made possible thanks to support from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
The Industry’s programming is also supported by Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Amphion Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund, Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, New Music USA, Perenchio Foundation, and Ralph M. Parsons Foundation.
about the artist
Carmina Escobar is a Los Angeles-based extreme vocalist, improviser, performer, and sound and intermedia artist whose work explores the boundaries of voice and sound to investigate emotions, politics, alienation, and human connection. Through performances, installations, and video/film works, she challenges conventions of musicality, gender, queerness, race, language, and communication. As an immigrant, her practice often examines suspended states between worlds, politics, and borders. She remains focused on creating thoughtful and boundary-pushing work while staying rooted in the exploratory and collaborative nature of her practice.
