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Mozart's Birthday Celebration

January 27, 2021

IN Series' annual Mozart's Birthday Celebration! Join Artistic Director Timothy Nelson, with artists Elizabeth Mondragon, Kristin Young, and Alex Alburqueque with pianist Emily Baltzer.

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SPECIAL HOLIDAY RELEASE: INVISION RECITAL SERIES

December 24, 2020

For a limited time this holiday season, INVISION makes available the Recital series premieres from 2020. Featuring world class IN Series artists: Carla Hübner, Elizabeth Mondragon, Jarrod Lee, Scott Patterson, Alex Alburqueque and Mari Paz.

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PREMIERE: Mozart's Birthday Celebration

Premieres 1/27 at 5:30pm

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I Wish I Knew...

In commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Nigel Rowe sings "I Wish I Knew" by Billy Taylor and Dick Dallas, popularized by Nina Simone.

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Why? (The King Of Love Is Dead)

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PREMIERE: Byron Jones & Natalie Conte In Recital

Ring in the New Year with IN Series family favorites Byron Jones, Natalie Conte, and accompanist Scott Beard.

Premieres 12/31 at 5pm

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PREMIERE: Alex Alburqueque & Mari Paz in Recital

Longtime collaborators Baritone Alex Alburqueque and pianist Mari Paz join together for a unique celebration of Latinx music - just in time for the holidays.

Begins at 7:00pm

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PREMIERE: Aber (11/28)

Aber was conceived as an exploration of loss through the lens of aerial dance and classical music. The Brahm’s requiem strikes a balance between the grand and eternal concept of death, and the more personal concept of loss.

Premieres at 5pm

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PREMIERE: The Pleiades Project| German Romantics: Clara

For German Romantics: Clara, The Pleiades Project reconceptualizes the three Lieder of Clara Schumann’s Op. 12, which was originally part of a collection of twelve songs jointly published by Clara and Robert to poetry by Friedrich Rückert. In 1841, soon after their marriage, Robert urged Clara to collaborate on a project together. Clara began to work on the songs of Op. 12, although she found the compositional process challenging. As the set took shape, Clara was at the beginning stages of pregnancy, and was generally ambivalent about composing Lieder.

PREMIERES 11/21 AT 5pm

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The Pleiades Project| German Romantics - Clara - SUBSCRIBER ONLY PREVIEW

In German Romantics, The Pleiades Project presents three miniseries based on the Lieder of German Romantic composers Clara Schumann, Louise Reichardt, and Fanny Mendelssohn. For our first installment, join us for German Romantics: Clara, where we follow our protagonist as she reconciles with the end of a relationship. Through her vibrant fantasies, she considers the good, the bad, and the romantic in life.

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Aber

Aber was conceived as an exploration of loss through the lens of aerial dance and classical music. The Brahm’s requiem strikes a balance between the grand and eternal concept of death, and the more personal concept of loss.

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PREMIERE: The Gonzales Cantata

Just in time for the election, a docu-opera of Melissa Dunphy’s brilliant setting of the transcripts from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s 2005 congressional hearings into the style of Handelian oratorio is art as satire – at turns funny, charming, moving, and always convicting. This new INVISION production features the premiere of a unique organ transcription by the composer as well as a special collaboration with the Capital City Symphony.

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IN The Dressing Rooms: ORPHEUS & EURYDICE featuring Benjamin Williamson & Paula Sides

The stars of INVISION's ORPHEE & EURYDICE, Benjamin Williamson & Paula Sides give insights and a brief behind the scenes look of their process and impact of the project.

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Director's Salon: The Gonzales Cantata

Corinnne Hayes, Director of INVISION's Gonzales Cantata discusses the work with the piece's composer Melissa Dunphy.

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Gonzales Cantata - Subscriber Only Preview

Just in time for the election, a docu-opera of Melissa Dunphy’s brilliant setting of the transcripts from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s 2005 congressional hearings into the style of Handelian oratorio is art as satire – at turns funny, charming, moving, and always convicting. This new INVISION production features the premiere of a unique organ transcription by the composer as well as a special collaboration with the Capital City Symphony.

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PREMIERE - ORPHEE & EURYDICE (11/1 at 3:00pm)

Gluck’s revolutionary opera is the first in a trilogy of projects about love and loss in the time of COVID. Real-life husband and wife Benjamin Williamson and Paula Sides take on this story of love at the edge of life and death, with a brilliant all-new English libretto by Andrew Albin, and music direction by Simone Luti. Shenandoah University provides the choruses, under the direction of Matthew Oltman.

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PREMIERE - My Protest: Jarrod Lee & Scott Patterson In Recital (at 7:00pm!)

MY PROTEST: a collaboration of bass-baritone Jarrod Lee and composer and pianist Scott Patterson. Celebrating Black artists in classical music, the program features compositions by Margaret Bonds, Leslie Adams, Robert Owens, and Keith Cosby Brown, with poetry by Langston Hughes. A world premiere piano sonata composed and performed by Scott Patterson is a profoundly moving eight-minute, 46-second musical-video commemoration of Black lives lost to police violence.

Beginning at 7:00pm

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DIRECTOR'S SALON: ORPHÉE & EURYDICE

Director Timothy Nelson discusses his adaptation of Gluck's ORPHÉE & EURYDICE with translator, Andrew Albin and cast members Paula Sides and Benjamin Williamson.

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Get Groovy With Gluck

A humorous look behind the scenes of the filming of Orphee & Eurydice with Ben Williamson & Paula Sides.

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IN Conversation: Dr. Anna Deeny Morales & Nelcy Avila

Poetry translator and scholar, Dr. Anna Deeny Morales and poetry scholar Nelcy Avila discuss IN Series' long running Gabriela Mistral Youth Poetry contest.

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The Art and Soul of Black Broadway

Attucks Adams walking tours and historian Timothy Wright gives an historical walking tour of Washington DC's Shaw neighborhood, U Street Corridor, and Black Broadway.

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Duke Ellington's Neighborhood

Come groove along with Duke’s jazz piano and join amazing performers, as they discover how a local hero influenced the Harlem Renaissance, helped shape the cultural history of Washington D.C., and became an international star.

Available til January 2021

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IN Conversation: Elizabeth Mondragon & David Sisco

Mezzo soprano Elizabeth Mondragon and contemporary composer and pianist David Sisco discuss their longtime collaboration and friendship.

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PREMIERE: Elizabeth Mondragon & Carla Hubner in Recital

The inaugural recital of the INVISION recital series. IN Series founder and acclaimed pianist, Carla Hubner with mezzo soprano Elizabeth Mondragon reunite at SOURCE Theatre in Washington DC to perform a special recital for you. These old friends and beloved performers present a collection of German lieder, cabaret songs, French art songs, Mexican folk and popular song, and works by contemporary composer David Sisco.

PREMIERE: 10/1 at 7:00pm

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The Pleiades Project | 24 Season 5 Premiere

You are invited to the world premiere of Pleiades | 24 Season 5 on INVISION. Join performers and creators for a panel discussion on the work at 4:30 in the Savada-Stevenson Lounge, then visit the Live Studio at 5:00 for the first-ever viewing of the final films of the series that reimagines the 24 Italian Songs and Arias as a vehicle for telling contemporary women's stories. End your evening by toasting and mingling with the creators in an artist reception back in the lounge.

Premieres 9/18/20 at 5:00pm

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Boheme in the Heights

The opera-lover’s opera comes to life in a whole new way. Created as an animated feature and set in Washington DC’s Columbia Heights neighborhood, this is about coming of age in a quickly changing city and the power of youth to face love, hope, change, and even death. Pianist Carlos Cesar Rodriguez brings the score to life with animations by Kat Navarro and an all-star cast.

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Alex Alburqueque and Mari Paz in Recital

Longtime collaborators Baritone Alex Alburqueque and pianist Mari Paz join together for a unique celebration of Latinx music - just in time for the holidays.

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The Gonzales Cantata

Just in time for the election, a docu-opera of Melissa Dunphy’s brilliant setting of the transcripts from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s 2005 congressional hearings into the style of Handelian oratorio is art as satire – at turns funny, charming, moving,and convicting.

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Byron Jones and Natalie Conte In Recital

Soprano Natalie Conte and Baritone Byron Jones join together for a special New Years Celebration for INVISION Subscribers.

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My Protest: Jarrod Lee & Scott Patterson In Recital

MY PROTEST: a collaboration of bass-baritone Jarrod Lee and composer and pianist Scott Patterson. Celebrating Black artists in classical music, the program features compositions by Margaret Bonds, Leslie Adams, Robert Owens, and Keith Cosby Brown, with poetry by Langston Hughes. A world premiere piano sonata composed and performed by Scott Patterson is a profoundly moving eight-minute, 46-second musical-video commemoration of Black lives lost to police violence.

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ORPHÉE ET EURYDICE

Gluck’s revolutionary opera is the first in a trilogy of projects about love and loss in the time of COVID. Real-life husband and wife Benjamin Williamson and Paula Sides take on this story of love at the edge of life and death.

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Elizabeth Mondragon & Carla Hübner in Recital

The inaugural recital of the INVISION recital series. IN Series founder and pianist, Carla Hubner with mezzo soprano Elizabeth Mondragon reunite at SOURCE Theatre in Washington DC to perform a special recital for you. These old friends and beloved performers present a collection of German lieder and cabaret songs by Schumann and Schonberg, French art songs by Debussy, Mexican folk and popular song, and works by contemporary composer David Sisco.

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LIFT OFF CONCERT

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VOICES IN SOLIDARITY

A live concert in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Featuring: Timothy Nelson, Cara Schaefer, Stanley Thurston, Teresa Ferrara, Nigel Rowe, Jarrod Lee, Brittani McNeil, Elizabeth Mondragon, Elise Christina Jenkins

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QUARENTETTO

The cast of IN Series' Rigoletto (cancelled due to COVID-19) joins together for QUARENTETTO - bringing the famous quartet from the opera, with new English lyrics by Bari Biern. Featuring conductor Victoria Gau, with Cara Schaefer, Allan Pallacios Chan, Teresa Ferrara, and Byron Jones

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JUNETEENTH - A Musical Celebration of Freedom

A concert honoring Juneteenth. Hosted by Stanley Thurston and featuring Jarrod Lee, Carl DuPont, Melissa Wimbish, and Brittani McNeill

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IN Conversation: Songs of The Fisherman - Andrew Albin

Songs Of The Fisherman composer, Timothy Nelson, and librettist, poet, and scholar Andrew Albin discuss their work.

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The Tale Of Serse: A Collaboration With the Tehran Symphony

The Cast of IN Series' 2019 production of Handel's Tale Of Serse (directed by Timothy Nelson) performs the finale of the work, paired with poetry by Rumi, and accompanied by the Tehran Symphony Orchestra in an international collaboration.

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IN Depth with Noelle McMurtry on Women Composers Festival

Soprano and activist Noelle McMurtry discusses her curation of IN Series' Women's Composer Festival

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A Stranger Fruit - performed by Jarrod Lee & Nigel Rowe

Taken from IN Series' 2020 "Voices In Solidarity" Concert - Jarrod Lee performs a selection from Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun, followed by Nigel Rowe singing Strange Fruit

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Intro to STORMY WEATHER

Stage Director, Alison Wong, introduces Sybil Williams' STORMY WEATHER

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Panel Discussion: Gender and Opera

A conversation on GENDER and OPERA explores the depiction of women in 19th century opera and how the ritual portrayal of women in the operas of Puccini and his contemporaries informs the role of women as artistic leaders in the opera industry today. Corinne Hayes, Assistant Stage Director at Washington National Opera, Soprano Maribeth Diggle, and Anne Midgette, Classical Music Critic for The Washington Post form the panel.

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Panel Discussion: Race and Opera

A conversation on RACE and OPERA nter around race, colonialism, and orientalism in opera, and how it informs casting, concepting, and the full in inclusion of people of color in the opera industry today. Brittani McNeill, Colin Michael Brush, Artistic Administrator of Washington National Opera, and Dr. Lester Green, Artistic Director of CAAPA - Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts.

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IN Conversation: soprano - Noelle McMurtry & director - Brian J. Shaw

Soprano Noelle McMurtry (Polyxo in Here Be Sirens) discusses the production and process with Stage Director, Brian J. Shaw

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An Introduction to STORMY WEATHER

Alison Wong, stage director of Stormy Weather, discusses the work and her process.

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Acis and Galatea

Amidst the hum and drum of a post-modernity, a traveling troupe of singing circus folk gather to perform for you the story of "Acis and Galatea," an ancient tale that has been passed down among untold generations of street performers. The story of "Acis and Galatea" is the classic tale of boy meets girl, boy gets girl, one-eyed monster crushes boy with rock, and boy turns into fountain. This ground-breaking production turns the theatre into a circus tent, reknowned singers into mimes, trapeze girls, clows, and even a dancing bear, and turns traditional opera on its head.‍

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Songs of the Fisherman

Released in 2014, SONGS OF THE FISHERMAN is a collaboration of composer Timothy Nelson (IN Series artistic director), poet Andrew Albin (ORPHEE ET EURYDICE, 2020), and tenor Brian Arreola(VIVA V.E.R.D.I., 2018, BUTTERFLY, 2019).

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Here Be Sirens

by American Kate Soper, explores with humor and pathos the experience of Homer’s Odyssean three singers.

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Stormy Weather

INspired by Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST, the story of colonization and subjugation is retold from the perspective of Sycorax, mother of Caliban and mistress of Ariel.

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Butterfly

Puccini's classic is given new force in a theatre experience that reveals the raw humanity behind the epic score.

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LIMITED HOLIDAY RELEASE: INVISION RECITAL SERIES

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SILENT FILM SERIES

Streaming through special arrangement with KinoLorber, a series of short silent films with original scores by composer Andrew E. Simpson. Available only from December 14th - December 28th. Featuring: ESCAPE ON THE FAST FREIGHT (Helen Holmes, 1915) TWO LITTLE RANGERS (Alice Guy Blaché, 1912)

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The Pleiades Project| German Romantics

What names come to mind when you think of German Romantic composers? Schumann? Mendelssohn? Schubert? If you mean Robert, Felix, and Franz, you may want to think again. The Pleiades Project presents three miniseries based on the Lieder of German Romantic composers Clara Schumann, Louise Reichardt, and Fanny Mendelssohn.

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IN Conversation IN Our Pajamas

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The Pleiades Project| 24

A video project adapted from a famous collection of twenty-four Baroque tunes. Although most singers regard this collection with a mixture of embarrassment and nostalgia, we believe that the 24 Italian Songs & Arias deserve to be re-considered and re-imagined as a timeless device for telling contemporary women’s stories through both music and film.Ultimately, this project will include five seasons. At the conclusion of filming this series The Pleiades Project will have showcased the diverse work of 30 female artists, including singers, directors, editors, choreographers, and fine artists.

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A Fairy Queen

An episodic podcast opera in the style of a classic radio drama, starting September 19, 2020 Midnight (Subscribers Early Release September 12)

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