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🕰️🧺🦀 If you were able to make it to our SOLD OUT run of ORIGINAL VISION V: MENAGERIE at @highwaysps - thank you! 💜 Your presence means the world to us. We’d love it if you would please fill out an audience questionnaire at our link in bio to help us (and our composer-librettist teams) learn what struck you and stuck with you. If you weren’t able to make it, we’re sorry we missed you - but there will be more opportunities to catch Overtone Industries onstage soon! 🤗 And there’s tons of @operafestla coming at you in May from Original Vision alums like @mollybutterfly and many others. Follow them for more info! If you want to see more of this kind of boundary-smashing, genre-breaking NEW opera, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to Overtone - also at our link in bio! 💜 Your gift goes directly to production and opera development costs, supporting the artists who bring these mythic stories to life. 📸: @angeloriggi Photos of Time Is the Enemy, MINE, & CARCINIZE! Composers: Samara Rice, O-Lan Jones, Murphy Severtson Librettists: Brian Sonia-Wallace, O-Lan Jones, George Landau-Pincus Stage Directors: O-Lan Jones, Livia Reiner Music Director: Fahad Siadat Stage Manger: @miac0807 Lighting Designers: W. Alejandro Melendez, Ella Fornof Set Designer: Jan Munroe Costume Designer: Danica Martino Producer: Elliot Menard Performers: Kevin Darnell Allen, Nelle June Anderson, Liz Eldridge, Kion Heidari, Elliot Menard, O-Lan Jones Brightwork newmusic: Aron Kallay, Nick Terry, Rachel Iba, Joo Lee ORIGINAL VISION V: MENAGERIE was presented as part of OperaFest LA 2026, with essential support from @metabolicstudio . This program was made possible in part with a grant from @culture_la

⬅️ SWIPE LEFT for rehearsal glimpses of Overtone Industries’ “Original Vision V: Menagerie” at Highways TONIGHT and TMRW as part of Opera Fest LA. Three operas-in-progress: → a downed pilot merging with a crab hivemind → a time machine built to end time itself → a life refracted through memory, lovers, and chorus 🚨 BOTH NIGHTS SOLD OUT 🚨
Walk-up list each night—no guarantees. For more info, Click on the Link in our bio! (Photos by Angel Origgi)

Original Vision V: Menagerie opens TONIGHT at Highways! Get in on the ground floor of new, experimental operatic works from O-Lan Jones, Samara Rice, Brian Sonia-Wallace, Murphy Severtson, and George Landau-Pincus. April 24-25 · Highways Tickets at operafestla.org and at the link in our bio!

A LOOK BACK at Original Vision: Leveling (2023.) Don’t miss Original Vision V: Menagerie, featuring excerpts from new works by O-Lan Jones, Samara Rice, Brian Sonia-Wallace, Murphy Severtson, and George Landau-Pincus. April 24-25 · Highways Tickets at operafestla.org and at the link in our bio! Video by Nicholas Casillas (Video’s music composer @piesaac , librettist @transcherubino )

This Week @highwaysps ! OPERA, but cracked open—spilling time loops, crab mythologies, and psychic debris all over the stage. 🦀⏳🌀 Original Vision V: Menagerie arrives as part of Opera Fest LA—an incubator where emerging composers go big, strange, and unapologetically alive. Featuring new works + a special appearance by O-Lan Jones—a true wildcard force threading it all together. Three operas-in-progress: → a downed pilot merging with a crab hivemind → a time machine built to end time itself → a life refracted through memory, lovers, and chorus It’s opera-theater as experiment, collision, and fevered invention. 🚨 BOTH NIGHTS SOLD OUT 🚨 But—there will be a walk-up list each night. No guarantees, but if you’re feeling lucky… 📅 Fri + Sat, APRIL 24 + 25 at 8PM Come hover at the edge of something not fully formed yet—where the risk is the point.

This week at OperaFestLa: More stages, more artists, more to discover! Turn of the Screw — an opera in three acts, based on the 1898 novella by Henry James The James Conlon Farewell concert, celebrating 20 years at @laopera Original Vision V: Menagerie — presenting the heartbeats of three new experimental operas LA’s funniest opera, Falstaff — dashing disguises, Shakespearean twists, and good old Italian opera More info and tickets at operafestla.org and at the link in our bio!

A LOOK BACK : Original Vision is in its 5th iteration as an incubator program dedicated to the development and presentation of new and innovative opera-theater. To celebrate the fifth year of Original Vision, O-Lan Jones — known for her genre-defying compositions and her scene-stealing turns in film and television — will workshop an excerpt from her own opera, MINE, alongside the works of Samara Rice, Brian Sonia-Wallace, Murphy Severtson, and George Landau-Pincus. April 24-25 · Highways Tickets at operafestla.org and at the link in our bio! Photos by Nicholas Casillas

Announcing the cast for Original Vision V: Menagerie! Celebrating “uncategorizable legend” O-Lan Jones — known for her genre-defying compositions and her scene-stealing turns in film and television (and recently named one of Tim Burton’s “luminaries” in his documentary Life in the Line) — Original Vision V: Menagerie will present an excerpt from Jones’ opera MINE, alongside the works of emerging composers and librettists. April 24-25 · Highways Tickets at operafestla.org and at the link in our bio!

Kick off OperaFest LA with us at our Kickoff Panel & Performance Event! Join us tomorrow for an afternoon spotlighting the artists and companies behind the 2026 festival, with live excerpt performances from The Magic Flute, The Turn of the Screw, Hysteria, CARCINIZE!, and Performance of Self. April 11 · 4–6 PM @ The Wallis Photos by Keida Mascaro (slide 2) Matt Cowan (slide 4) Cory Weaver (slide 6)

Join Overtone Industries for the fifth year of Original Vision, an incubator program dedicated to original stories of mythic proportion through the development and presentation of new and innovative opera-theater. Original Vision V: Menagerie features works in-development by Murphy Severtson and George Landau-Pincus, Samara Rice and Brian Sonia-Wallace, and O-Lan Jones, with mentorship from Jones and Fahad Siadat. To celebrate the fifth year of Original Vision, “uncategorizable legend” O-Lan Jones — known for her genre-defying compositions and her scene-stealing turns in film and television (and recently named one of Tim Burton’s “luminaries” in his documentary Life in the Line) — will workshop an excerpt from her own opera, MINE, alongside the works of emerging composers and librettists. April 24-25 · Highways Tickets at operafestla.org and at the link in our bio!

🦀🩻⚕️ORIGINAL VISION V: MENAGERIE is coming to @highwaysps 8pm April 24th and 25th - and tickets are available at our link in bio! 👀 Looking for a preview?! Join us and the rest of @operafestla Saturday April 11th 4pm at @thewallisbh 🦀 🩻⚕️ The fifth cohort of Original Vision features time travel, ravenous beasts, the fractal flow of the inner voice, and so much more in works from Murphy Severtson & George Landau-Pincus, Samara Rice & Brian Sonia-Wallace, and our very own Artistic Director, O-Lan Jones! 💫 Developed with mentorship from Fahad Siadat and O-Lan Jones, these performances feature music direction by Siadat and direction by Jones and Livia Reiner. Performers include Kevin Darnell Allen, Nelle June Anderson, Liz Eldridge, Kion Heidari, Elliot Menard, O-Lan Jones, and Brightwork Newmusic. If you’re in the mood for additional celebration, the performance on the 25th will be followed by a ticketed reception catered by Joan Spitler and Leigh Grode - the “Cake Divas” known for creating the confections in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, among other exciting TV and Film credits.

🎟️ Ticket Link In Bio 🎟️ ✨ Benefit Concert Announcement ✨ I’m so excited to share that I’ll be performing in a benefit concert entitled Powerful Women With Something to Say — a night of bold voices and meaningful stories. This concert is presented in cooperation with Overtone Industries, an LA-based opera company dedicated to nurturing inventive, authentic storytelling. 🗓 Saturday, March 28�⏰ 7:00 PM�📍 Chamber Music OC�Lake Forest, California Come support powerful music, powerful women, and a powerful mission. 🎶💜�Save the date, bring a friend, and let your voice be part of the conversation. #PowerfulWomen #BenefitConcert #WomenWithSomethingToSay #Opera #LiveMusic OvertoneIndustries ChamberMusicOC LakeForestCA