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.

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Digital Director's Salon - Orpheus And Eurydice

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 3 - Night The Third

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 2 - Night The Second

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 1 - Prologue And Night The First

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.

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

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

INtune - Episode 24 - IN Rage IN Hope IN Repentance

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

INtune Episode 23 - INspired IN Times of Crisis

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

INtune Episode 22 - IN Sanity

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

INtune - Episode 21: IN Our Solitude

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 - Gotterdamerung

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

INtros to Opera - Siegfried

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

INtros to Opera - Die Walkure

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.

INtune - Episode 20: OUT of darkness

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

INtros to Opera - Das Rheingold

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.

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