Opera on Tap - DC Metro
Singer's Choice
Thursday, April 25, 2024 7-9pm
The Wonderland Ballroom
1101 Kenyon St, NW
Washington, DC
VERDI'S REQUIEM | SHAKESPEARE'S KING LEAR
November 18-December 10, 2023
Source Theater
1835 14th St NW
Washington, DC 20009
December 15-16, 2023
Baltimore Theater Project
45 W Preston St
Baltimore, MD 21201
Las Misticas de Mexico
March 2024
Dupont Underground, DC
Mexican Cultural Institute, DC
Baltimore
THE RETURN OF ULYSSES
SONG OF MY FATHER
Monteverdi | Lau
May-June, 2024
Source Theater
1835 14th St NW
Washington, DC 20009
Baltimore Theater Project
45 W Preston St
Baltimore, MD 21201
ZAVALA-ZAVALA
June 21-23, 2024
GALA Hispanic Theatre
3333 14th St NW
Washington, DC 20010
Calendar
The Promised End
VERDI'S REQUIEM | SHAKESPEARE'S KING LEAR
This original and unlikely piece brilliantly weaves together the entirety of Giuseppe Verdi’s shattering REQUIEM, performed by eight exceptional vocal artists in a version that allows audiences to hear this music as if for the first time, and a one-woman monodrama depicting the composer Verdi, the play “King Lear,” and aged King Lear himself. The text is formed by Artistic Director Timothy Nelson from an essay by renowned Shakespeare scholar Marjorie Garber.
*Named the #1 Classical Music event of the year by the Washington Post
Elizabeth Mondragon
Mezzo-Soprano
Biography
IN Series’ lauded Monteverdi Trilogy continues with the second installation in the cycle. 2024 is the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the start of official military action by the United States in Vietnam. It was a conflict that would change the face of America forever. The young souls that fought were wounded most acutely in ways that were invisible, and their return home was only the beginning of an epic struggle to live again.
Las Misticas de Mexico
The iconic poet nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, songstresses María Grever, Toña la Negra, and Chavela Vargas, and images by the great Frida Kahlo are joined with contemporary voices of Mexican women creatives continuing the legacy of making visionary art. These artists adorn an anonymous 11th century chant drama in a new English translation by Anna Deeny Morales, who leads a team of non-Mexican female artists finding inspiration in Mexican mystical art.
Elizabeth Mondragon is a Washington, D.C.-based mezzo-soprano. Her performance experience ranges from traditional operatic productions to new music premieres. Principal roles include Carmen, Rosina, Dido, Ma Moss, Giulio Cesare, and Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors. She has sung throughout the Northeastern U.S. with companies such as Opera North, Camerata Baroque, Amore Opera, One World Symphony, Maryland Lyric Opera, Regina Opera and In Series.
As much a lover of concert and recital as of opera, she has been a soloist with the Friday Morning Music Club, Central City Chorus, St. George’s Choral Society and the Astoria Symphony featured in the Verdi Requiem, Bach Christmas Oratorio, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solenelle, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor and Mendelssohn's Elijah. In addition, she has been a featured soloist with Ars Musicae Hispaniae Harp Ensemble, performing the music of Spain and Mexico, and has presented recitals of 20th and 21st century song with The Liederkranz Club, the Wiscasset Salon Series, and the UUCC Chalice Concert Series in New York and Maryland.
Her enthusiasm for new music and working with living composers has led to her performing and premiering works by several local composers, such as David E. Chávez, Elisabeth Mehl Greene, William Kenlon, Michael Oberhauser, Frances Pollock, and Erin Rogers, as well as having established a regular collaboration with award-winning composer, David Sisco.