POPPEA

March 2025

DUPONT UNDERGROUND | BALTIMORE THEATRE PROJECT | ST MARKS CAPITOL HILL

Stage and Musical Direction by Timothy Nelson
Choreography by Hari Krishnan

With new music composed by Ami Dang and Rajna Swaminathan

Design by Deb Sivigny, Kathryn Kawecki, Paul Callahan

The final part of IN Series’ Monteverdi trilogy, Poppea brings the composer’s most famous and audacious final opera of love, power, sex, and betrayal to life inspired by the performance tradition of South India, and specifically Bharatanatyam dance. This landmark production, running March 14-30 at Dupont Underground, St. Mark’s Capitol Hill and Baltimore Theatre Project, is of one of opera’s undisputed masterpieces. IN Series’ production will be a collaboration with choreographer Hari Krishnan, whose work brilliantly combines the aesthetics of this traditional dance form with contemporary movement and questions of gender norms, and will feature original dance music composed by sitar player Ami Dang, and mridangam percussionist Rajna Swaminathan. The work will be directed and conducted by IN Series Artistic Director Timothy Nelson and feature a cast of local favorites and international artists known for their interpretations of opera of the Baroque. The INnovātiō Orchestra, IN Series’ own period baroque band, will blend music of South India in an evening of whirling passion, music, poetry, and dance. Opening night will be a celebration of the Indian festival of Holi.

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supported in part by GENEROUS GIFTS FROM

Michael Burke, Jamie Craft, Joe Drach and Janet Farrell, Nicole Alfandre Halbreiner, Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon, Sven Kraemer & Carla Hübner, Linda Lowery, Carl Spatz & Thomas Hesselbrack