This spring, as the weeks turned into months without any notion of when live performances could safely, comfortably resume, Timothy Nelson realized that the In Series had to do something drastic.
They needed to go big and bold, beyond any sense of normal.“I couldn’t see us spending a whole season playing the game of, ‘Will we do this?
Do we have to move this? Will we reschedule this?'” Nelson says. “Because of our capacity — and we’re three full-time staff and two part-time — that would just take all of our efforts.”As horrible as the pandemic has been, it has also invited “the opportunity for self-examination and reinvention,” Nelson says. “And if there’s anything that needs a lot of self-examination and reinvention, it’s opera.”.
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