IN Series announces its 2025-26 season, “IN Principio” consists solely of premiering works. The world premiere staging of the Baroque work, “St John the Baptist” opens the season. Local singers perform in collaboration with New York’s Catapult Opera and Baltimore-based designers. Performance Dates: October 4 – 19, 2025 Marking IN Series’ first fully commissioned opera, “Delta King’s Blues” is an {…}
IN Series is set to present the first musical reading of Damien Geter and Jarrod Lee’s “Delta King’s Blues.” The reading, set for Jan. 26, 2025, at 4 p.m. at the MLK Library Auditorium in Washington D.C., will feature Curtis Bannister as Robert Johnson, Carl Dupont as the Devil, Melissa Wimbish as Virginia, Marvin Wayne Allen III as Willy, and {…}
(Credit: Ruth Walz) IN Series has announced that it will honor director Peter Sellars during its 2024 Gala. The famed opera director will receive the first-ever June Jordan Award on May 2. The Award recognizes “living creative voices whose body of work reflects the poetic principles exuding the many writings, workings, wonderings of luminary poet and activist June Jordan.” Sellars {…}
IN Series will present “The Promised End,” a unique exploration of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” and Verdi’s Requiem. The production is set for Nov. 18-Dec. 10 at the Source Theatre and Dec. 15-17, 2023 at the Baltimore Theatre Project. The work, which originally opened in 2018, will feature eight vocal artists, including Teresa Ferrara, Natalie Conte, Elizabeth Mondragon, Gayssie Lugo, Brian {…}
Washington D.C.-based IN Series Opera has announced its 2023-24 season. “This season explores ‘resurrection,’ bearing out the idea that the making of art is itself an audacious act of hope, of faith, of believing that from nothing something can be made,” Artistic Director Timothy Nelson said in an official press statement. “Art is the purest form of the literal ‘resurrection,’ {…}
IN Series is set to present John Adams’ “I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky” starting on April 14, 2023. Written by June Jordan, the work presents “events of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake with its searing, compassionate, and prescient exploration of broken justice and migration systems, police violence against young Black men, family border separation and {…}
IN Series is set to celebrate its 40th anniversary on Jan. 30, 2022 via Zoom. The Washington-based company will present a program that features an overview of the company’s history and a recognition of its partner venues during that time; a look into the organization’s place in the DC Theater Scene through the eyes of local critics; a preview of {…}
In Series Opera in Maryland has announced its 2021-22 Season features films and live performances. The season opens with A Festival Through Grief to Hope. The opening festival weekend features live events based on the artistic achievements of IN Series 2020-2021 season and will showcase the film Gluck’s’ “Orpheus and Eurydice,” “Chronicle of a Life and Love,” and “Pieces of a {…}
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 {…}
The In Series has announced its next slew of online streaming options. First up is the company’s recent production of “Stormy Weather.” The opera is based on Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” but retold through the perspective of Sycorax, the mother of Caliban and mistress of Arial. The opera features music by Billie Holiday and poetic-prose written by Sybil Williams. Michelle Rogers {…}
The IN Series will continue its online streaming series with a production of “Here Be Sirens” by Kate Soper. The work explores Homer’s Odyssey through three singers, including Noelle McMurtry, Julie Boswroth, and Camille Crossot. The program hails from March 7 and 8, 2020 and featured stage direction by Brian J. Shaw, set design by Johnathan Dahm Roberston, lighting design {…}