IN Series Opera makes theater from music: transforming artists, audiences, and community by disrupting expectations, nourishing empathy, stimulating insight, and deepening the conversation.
2026-2027 SEASON
IN Series has announced its 2026-27 season titled Sic Semper Tyrannis, which will feature a bold and brave season that dares to stand up and speak out during tumultuous political times. Additionally, this year of performances serves as a celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and a reminder of the work that is still yet to be done. It also marks the beginning of a build toward IN Series’ 45th anniversary year, to be celebrated in 2027, and the opening of the company’s new permanent D.C. home at the Arts Hub in Southwest D.C. Performances in Baltimore will continue throughout the season.
ABOUT IN SERIES
IN Series is the standard-bearer for innovative opera theater in Washington DC. We make theater from music: transforming artists, audiences, and community by disrupting expectations, nourishing empathy, stimulating insight, and deepening the conversation. IN Series envisions a thriving global community in which opera is a fully integrated and essential part of collective conversation. In picturing the journey to this end, IN Series is a change-maker – a force that, with each groundbreaking production and outreach event, radically transforms perceptions of the “who”, “what”, “where”, and “why” of opera: who gets to make opera and for whom is it made; what is defined as an operatic experience; where operas take place; why we make opera; and why opera matters.Founded by Carla Hübner in 1982 as a concert series of the former Mount Vernon College, “The In Series” became an independent non-profit arts organization in 2000 and has been a resident company at Source Theater since 2008. Timothy Nelson assumed the artistic directorship in 2018, quickly establishing the newly rebranded “IN Series” as DC’s home for “Thought, debate, history, and innovation” (DC Metro Theatre Arts) in opera. Learn more
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