MasterVoices has unveiled its 2024-25 season.

First up is “Strike Up the Band” by George and Ira Gershwin. Ted Sperling conducts and directs the production. Tracy Christensen is the costume designer for the work, which is being presented in New York for the first time since 1998.

Performance Date: Oct. 29, 2024

Then comes Scott Davenport Richards and David Cote’s “Blind Injustice,” a 90-minute opera based on the book by Mark Godsey and casework by the Ohio Innocence Project. Ted Sperling conducts and Robin Guarino directs.

Per the original press release, “this 90-minute opera tells the true story of six people, still living, who were unjustly accused and convicted of crimes they didn’t commit. The exonerees are Rickey Jackson, who spent 39 years in prison for a crime he did not commit; Nancy Smith, a Head Start bus driver falsely accused of molesting children and who spent more than 14 years in prison; Clarence Elkins, convicted of the murder of his mother-in-law and rape of her young granddaughter; and the East Cleveland 3: Laurese Glover, Eugene Johnson, and Derrick Wheatt, witnesses in a shooting who, despite tainted evidence, were convicted. Only through the efforts of the Ohio Innocence Project (OIP) were they ultimately cleared of these accusations and set free. The OIP is one of the most active and successful innocence projects in the country and, to date, has secured the freedom of 42 innocent Ohioans who together served more than 900 years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit.”

Performance Date: Feb. 3 & 4, 2025

Closing out the season is a reframing of Bach’s B minor mass. Ted Sperling conducts the showcase.

Performance Date: May 5, 2025