The progressive Los Angeles-based operatic think tank The Industry strikes again! As usual, its new show has a great many moving parts, most conspicuously a turntable in constant motion. Half the disc is given over to Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea (1643), fueled by love and power in ancient Rome. The novelty The Comet occupies the other half of the turntable; it focuses on the sole survivors of a cosmic disaster—a Black man and a white woman. The Comet derives from a short story by the Harlem Renaissance leader W. E. B. Du Bois, whose classic The Souls of Black Folk elaborates his theme of “double consciousness.” The director Yuval Sharon extrapolates to concerns well beyond the racial: The Comet/Poppea, he writes, “begins as a critique of the institution of opera and ends as a justification of the art form’s radical potential.” Incredibly, The Industry has succeeded in enlisting rotating casts, among them contemporary-opera royalty such as Kiera Duffy, Laurel Irene, Anthony Roth Costanzo, and Davóne Tines. The composer of record for the entire show is George Lewis. —Matthew Gurewitsch