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Juliette
Mercutio
Throughout Theodora, Handel weaves the threads of the enlightenment that would just a generation later give birth to the spirit of America: freedom of religion, assembly, speech, from persecution and the free exercise of joy and presence. IN Series mounts its largest production ever with full baroque orchestra and choir as a testament to courage of holding fast to an ideal, at all costs. From its audacious beginning through the most powerful music Handel ever wrote, this rarely staged masterwork promises to move and even transfigure audiences in an experience like none other this season.
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Performer
Pamina
Papagena
Papageno
Younger Alyce
Melisse Brunet, Conductor
Soprano Soloist
Performer
Performer
Younger Alyce
Gilda
Sandman
Rossen Milanov, Conductor
Soprano Solo
Triple bill of A.E. Reverie, Love, Loss, and the Century Upon us, and Pepito
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Young Man , Pepito
Barbarina
Director
Cherubino
Marcellina
Don Basilio/Don Curzio
Performer
A Kennedy Center and Washington National Opera World Premiere Commission
Join hosts Kennedy Center Artistic Advisor Renée Fleming and inaugural Education Artist-in-Residence Mo Willems for a family-friendly event exploring our strongest emotions through one of the world’s most dramatic genres…opera!
Together with the Washington National Opera Cafritz Young Artists, Mo and Renée present famous arias as you’ve never heard them before, bursting with Mo-ified lyrics to explore the range of human emotions in a way audiences new and old can appreciate and enjoy.
Feel the joy of playing with 10,000 puppies through the music of Verdi, the despair of not having ice cream through Leoncavallo, and the anger and frustration of not being able to ride a bike through Mozart. And—as a special bonus for the evening—enjoy a world premiere performance of the new WNO commission, Don’t Let the Pigeon Sing Up Late!, composed by Kennedy Center Composer-in-Residence Carlos Simon and featuring The Pigeon’s dramatic operatic debut.
Music directed and conducted by David Hanlon
Directed by Felicia Curry
The Pigeon
Washington Concert Opera is pleased to present its popular Opera Outside program in a new location on May 19th: Union Market in NE DC (1309 5th St NE, Washington, DC 20002).
May 21: the upper lawn of Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park near the Joan of Arc statue.
Admission is FREE and open to all ages, no tickets required. Come and go as you please, and come as you are — children and pets welcome!
Soloist
Aspasia
Performer
Assistant Director
Performer
Sandrina
Assistant Director
Sandrina
Nardo
Assistant Director
Praised for her "ravishing voice" and "compelling stage presence", Turkish-American soprano Öznur Tülüoğlu, (Oz) is establishing herself as a young, rising artist "destined for bigger things." Oz will make her highly anticipated role debut as Juliette in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette in October 2026, followed by the title role of Theodora in Handel's Theodora with In Series Opera in 2027.
Her 2025–2026 season featured several significant milestones, including her role debut as Pamina with Mobile Opera, a return to Glory Denied as Younger Alyce, appearances as the soprano soloist in Mahler's Symphony No. 9 with Inscape Chamber Orchestra and Carmina Burana with Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, and performances as Le Feu and Le Rossignol in Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges with Bel Cantanti Opera. Oz also frequently performs with The Denyce Graves Foundation, where she serves as Executive Administrator.
Oz has achieved recognition as a finalist in prestigious competitions such as the Jensen Foundation Competition, the Opera Mississippi John Alexander National Vocal Competition, and the Music International Grand Prix Competition. In 2022, she won 3rd place at the AIMS in Graz Vocal Competition and has received two Encouragement Awards from the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.
In Summer 2024, Oz joined Chautauqua Opera as an Apprentice Artist, where she performed the roles of Young Woman in the world premiere of A.E. Reverie, Camila in Pepito, and Sandman in Hansel and Gretel. She also served as the Soprano Soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
Oz began the 2022/2023 season making her international debut performing the role of Sandrina in a co-production of La finta giardiniera with Opera Neo and The Hungarian State Opera. Afterwards, she joined Opera Neo as an Apprentice Artist in their San Diego summer festival.
Oz is a graduate of the University of Maryland, Maryland Opera Studio, where she earned her Master of Music in opera performance, studying under Gran Wilson. Notable engagements with the opera studio include Mrs. Coyle in Britten's Owen Wingrave alongside the National Orchestral Institute, and Arminda in Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera. She also premiered the role of Woman 1 in the new work Four Freedoms by Joseph C. Phillips during her time at MOS.
Oz earned her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance at the New England Conservatory, where she made her operatic debut as Damigella in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea. Her enthusiasm for score study extends to music theory, as Oz worked with published musicologist Deborah Stein to complete a minor in music theory with a focus on Schubert Lieder during her studies at NEC.
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