Pre-pandemic, the IN Series hadn’t so much as considered expanding its online presence, let alone produce original digital content. “Even if we had thought about it, we would have really struggled…because our audience wouldn’t have known how to work the technology,” Nelson says. “All of that will be available to stream for free.”The new season of the IN Series officially kicks off next weekend with the COVID-inspired “A Festival Through Grief to Hope.” The core of the four-event, multi-venue Opening Weekend Festival is a trilogy of opera films created by the IN Series in 2020, featuring music by Gluck, Schumann, and Wagner. As Nelson puts it, “we’re trying to find hope amidst all of the terrible wreckage.”The Opening Weekend Festival runs Thursday, Sept. 23, through Sunday, Sept. 26, at various venues around town. All past and upcoming IN Series productions can be accessed at https://invision.inseries.org.

Source: MetroXpress September 20, 2021 15:11 UTC