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The In Series - Opera and More

The In Series

  • Oct 19, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
  • monthly NEW EPISODES
  • 38m AVG DURATION
  • 37 EPISODES


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Digital Director's Salon - Orpheus And Eurydice

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2020 94:58


IN Series' unique series of conversation with artist and scholars on the themes of each production continues in a digital form with this enlightening conversation with Benjamin Williamson (Orpheus), Paula Sides (Eurydice), and Andrew Albin, poet, translator, and scholar or literature, led by Artistic Director Timothy Nelson.

A Fairy Queen - Episode 3 - Night The Third

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2020 75:10


On the third and longest night in their playing, the fairies play out the story of four young lovers in the woods, As they sleep the fairies led by Puck, Oberon, and Titania, confuse their love with drops from the magical flower. When they wake they learn that there is no fairy tale in A Fairy Queen as they confront heartbreak and confusion. As spring breaks and the sun rises they begin to rebuild their lives.

A Fairy Queen - Episode 2 - Night The Second

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2020 51:16


On the second evening of their revels, Puck narrates the feud between Fairy King Oberon and his Queen Titania, who soon square. Cursing Titania and her fairy band, Oberon consorts with Puck to pick an herb which will make her, when placed on her eyelids while asleep, love the first creature she sees upon waking. Finding her asleep he administers the drops of the flower, and when she wakes she spies Bottom, with an ass's head upon his shoulders. In love she seduces him, coddles him, tickles him, and makes love to him. Oberon is broken by this and wakes his queen and they begin to heal as the sun rises around them.

A Fairy Queen - Episode 1 - Prologue And Night The First

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2020 39:25


In this opening episode a prologue introduces the world of fairies and the plots that they will play. First come the Mechanicals, a group of odd folks setting out to perform a play. They are led by Quince and their stay is Bottom, a stuttering fool who's ass like personality becomes transformed to reality when he encounters Oberon, the Fairy King. Now drunk and transmuted, Bottom is molested by a band of fairies and forced to recite verse to them before falling fast asleep as dawn breaks.

A Fairy Queen - Episode 4 - Night The Fourth And Epilogue

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2020 32:59


Finally the Mechanicals return to perform their play. Chaos mysteriously turns to comfort as fiasco becomes revelation, The fairies gather in an epilogue just before the fourth nights end, at break of day, and Puck makes amends.

INtune - Episode 24 - IN Rage IN Hope IN Repentance

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2020 15:27


An abbreviated episode on the limits of language, the usefulness of silence, and the need for noise.

INtune Episode 23 - INspired IN Times of Crisis

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2020 20:04


As we look forward we look backwards at music that came out of times of crisis.

INtune Episode 22 - IN Sanity

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2020 28:36


Insanity, In sanity, and INsanity - a conversation through three approaches to the same turn of phrase - from budgets to passions to poetry.

INtune - Episode 21: IN Our Solitude

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2020 35:45


A musical meditation from Johne Donne to Robert Johnson to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the paradox of solitude.

Intros to Opera - Gotterdamerung

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2020 32:32


In this final installment of our RING listening guide, Artistic Director Timothy Nelson explores not only this final segment, but also the power this work and Wagner's music continued to hold throughout the entire 20th century, even impacting how opera is made today.

INtros to Opera - Siegfried

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2020 17:34


A look at the third opera in Wagner's Ring Cycle - SIEGFRIED.

INtros to Opera - Die Walkure

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2020 11:29


An INtro to night two of the Mets Ring Cycle - DIE WALKURE

INtune - Episode 20: OUT of darkness

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2020 31:23


From Handel's appeal for a place to mourn to his later assurance that the sun also rises, this podcast looks at not only how we measure the times, but perhaps how the times might also measure us.

INtros to Opera - Das Rheingold

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2020 25:03


Artistic Director Timothy Nelson kicks off the Metropolitan Opera's Ring Cycle (rebroadcast March 23-26 2020) with an introduction to DAS RHEINGOLD.

INtros - Tristan und Isolde

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2020 23:02


IN Series Artistic Director Timothy Nelson introduces Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" in advance of the Metropolitan Opera's March 23rd streaming of the opera.

INtune Episode 19: IN & Out of the Closet

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2020 41:16


IN Series Artistic Director Timothy Nelson starts a new series of INtune podcasts, musing of the mind for a brave new world. In this episode he talks epics, the Decameron, and plays music from Vivaldi's "Griselda".

Epidsode 18

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2020 21:25


An INsider's look at all that's been going on at your IN Series in the start of 2020.

INtune: Episode 17 - IN Depth with Berlioz's L'ENFANCE DU CHRIST

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2019 48:00


An introduction to Berlioz's "L'Enfance du Christ" (The Childhood of Christ) - and amazing piece for a new immersive collaborative production.

INtune Episode 16: LEAN IN: A Storm is Coming

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2019 73:33


An wrap-up of Butterfly, an invitation to participate in L'ENFANCE DU CHRIST, and audio from out STORMY WEATHER Director's Salon.

INtune: Episdode 15 - IN Depth on BUTTERFLY

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2019 42:30


A preview discussion of BUTTERFLY, its sources (Puccini and otherwise), why its important that IN Series present this work today, and what our audiences can expect.

IN tune: Episode 14 - IN depth Directors Salon for the Tale of Serse

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2019 33:38


A live recording of our Director's Salon for THE TALE OF SERSE with Fatemeh Keshavarz and Parinaz Pahdori in conversation with Timothy Nelson about Handel, Rumi, and the connections of the universe.

INtune Episode 13 - Checking IN - A Look at the 2019-2020 LEAN IN Season

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2019 23:20


Hear Artistic Director Timothy Nelson discuss the shows in our 2019-2020 LEAN IN Season.

IN song with Elizabeth Mondragon - Si Me Lleagar

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2019 3:58


Hear mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Mondragon sing the beginning sequence of LA PALOMA AT THE WALL

INtune Episode 12 - LA PALOMA AT THE WALL - The Director's Salon

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2019 75:49


Listen to audio from our Director's Salon for LA PALOMA AT THE WALL - a community conversation with musical performances.

IN song with Mia Rojas - Cielito Lindo

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2019 3:51


Hear In Series soprano Mi Rojas sing and talk about Cielito Lindo from the new production LA PALOMA AT THE WALL.

INtune Episdoe 11 - IN depth with Elizabeth Mondragon as La Paloma

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2019 35:36


A conversation with mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Mondragon, who is premiering the title role in LA PALOMA AT THE WALL.

INtune - Episode 10 - IN conversation with Dr Anna Deeny Morales

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2019 48:18


INtune - Episode 10 - IN conversation with Dr Anna Deeny Morales by The In Series

INtune Episode 9 - "From U Street to the Cotton Club" Director's Salon

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2018 32:50


A broadcast of the Director's Salon of "From U Street to the Cotton Club" - performances from the production and a community conversation on the genesis of the work and the place of art in a quickly gentrifying community.

INtune Episode 8 - INcoming "U Street to the Cotton Club"

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2018 22:57


A brief discussion of the issues in the In Series' collective mind at present, and a look ahead at "From U Street to the Cotton", with an introduction and sneak peek into all that's planned for it.

Episode Episode 7: A Look INside "Operetta Wonderland - The Magic of Victor Herbert"

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2018 49:51


A broadcast of our November 11th Director's Salon for "Operetta Wonderland - The Magic of Victor Herbert" with guests Dr. Tracey Elaine Chessum and Loras Schissel from the Library Congress, moderated by Brian J. Shaw and featuring music director Carlos Rodriguez and the cast of "Operetta Wonderland".

INtune: Episode 7 - Figaro in Four Quartets Director's Salon

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2018 42:39


INtune: Episode 7 - Figaro in Four Quartets Director's Salon by The In Series

INtune: Episode 6 - A Look INside "Figaro in Four Quartets"

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2018 23:40


INtune: Episode 6 - A Look INside "Figaro in Four Quartets" by The In Series

INtune: Episode 5 "I Hate Opera"

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2018 46:06


IN conversation with theater director and producer Alison Wong.

INtune: Episode 4 Inside the Opera Studio with Brian Arreola

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2018 44:43


In this episode we interview tenor Brian Arreola about the artistic-technical nexus and give insights into new developments to our 2018-2019 season.

INtune: Episode 3 - "Hurricanoes" Update

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2018 17:31


In this episode of INtune, In Series Artistic Director Timothy Nelson gives a short update of on the opening of "Viva V.E.R.D.I. - The Promised End" and talks about Anne Midgette's recent review in the Washington Post

INtune: Episode 2 - Director's Salon "Viva V.E.R.D.I."

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2018 98:32


An upload of our August 28th Director's Salon, with special guests from the Washington National Opera, the Washington Shakespeare Theatre, and the National Institutes of Health.

INtune: Episode 1 - Viva VERDI

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2018 50:58


INtune: Episode 1 - Viva VERDI by The In Series

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