Q & A: Janet Farrell on INSERIES & Being a Recipient of a National Opera Trustee Recognition Award

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Janet Farrell is one of five recipients of the National Opera Trustee Recognition Awards by Opera America. Farrell, who loves singing, was brought to the INSERIES by the dynamic artistic director, Timothy Nelson. With Farrell’s professional business acumen and experience at M&T Bank and her love of opera, she has been able to draw attention and support to INSERIES, something {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

IN Series & Catapult Opera 2025 Review: St. John the Baptist

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(Photo: Bayou Elom) Following the invention of opera in Florence around the year 1600, its popularity spread throughout Italy. The early works of Peri, Caccini and Monteverdi offered a rebirth of Greek Drama with an attempt to find a way to understand the text through recitative and aria. These innovations made it possible to stage works whose texts could be {…}

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IN Series Opera 2025 Review: The Alcestiad

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IN Series Opera, a regional opera company based in Washington, DC has presented many remarkable works this season. Almost all the works have represented new operas or new versions of opera in contemporary settings. I have been to the downtown locations of the company near Arena Theater, the Edlavitch DCJCC, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Library and the {…}

IndieOpera, Streaming

IN Series to Stream ‘BOHEME in the Heights’

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IN Series has announced the streaming premiere of its animated, Afro-Latinx reimagining of Puccini’s beloved classic, “BOHEME in the Heights” on Dec. 20, 2021. The work will be available for FREE at https://invision.inseries.org/productions/boheme-in-the-heights. The opera is colorfully depicted in a fictionalized Columbia Heights during the winter and spring of 2020 and celebrates the exuberant creative power of youth and the {…}

IndieOpera, Streaming

IN Series To Premiere ‘Boheme in the Heights’

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IN Series has announced the premiere the opera film, “Boheme in the Heights.” The animated, Spanish-language, Afro-LatinX reimagining of Puccini’s classic opera will premiere on Thursday, May 27, at 7:00 pm on INVISION: The Logan Operahouse Without Walls. The film was created by young Baltimore animators and set in Washington, DC’s Columbia Heights neighborhood in the Winter and Spring of {…}

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IN Series Launches Digital Platform With Iranian-American Musical Collaboration

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IN Series, a DC-based opera company, has launched INVISION, a unique digital performing arts center. The organization launched the service with a unique video collaboration between IN Series and the Tehran Symphony Orchestra. The video features several opera singers performing from Handel’s “Serse” alongside 19 musicians from the Tehran Symphony. “If we have to make virtual work,” said IN Series {…}