Overtone Industries

04/26/2026

🕰️🧺🦀 If you were able to make it to our SOLD OUT run of ORIGINAL VISION V: MENAGERIE at - thank you! 💜 Your presence means the world to us. We’d love it if you would please fill out an audience questionnaire to help us (and our composer-librettist teams) learn what struck you and stuck with you. https://forms.gle/nJcN6prqq4NFEK9r5

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 coming at you in May from Original Vision alums like 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 at www.overtoneindustries.org/donate! 💜 Your gift goes directly to production and opera development costs, supporting the artists who bring these mythic stories to life.

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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

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 Metabolic Studio. This program was made possible in part with a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

04/08/2026

How about spending Saturday afternoon seeing a preview of scenes from + a panel on the creative process featuring our own and .morrison__ and many other new opera luminaries from all across this exciting festival?! 🦀 $11 tickets available now at OperaFestLA.org 🫶

04/04/2026

🦀🩻⚕️ORIGINAL VISION V: MENAGERIE is coming to 8pm April 24th and 25th - and tickets are available at the link in the comments! 👀 Looking for a preview?! Join us and the rest of Saturday April 11th 4pm at 🦀 🩻⚕️

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.

04/02/2026

https://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/Overtone-Industries-Will-Present-ORIGINAL-VISION-V-MENAGERIE-in-April-20260402

Overtone Industries will present three operas-in-development at Highways Performance Space in Los Angeles on April 24 and 25, 2026, as part of OperaFest LA, with a public Sitzprobe on April 19.

03/20/2026

https://www.laweekly.com/theres-enough-going-on-at-the-la-opera-to-make-you-dizzy

The LA Opera is alive and thriving, with a robust lineup of programs for its 2026/2027 season, reflecting the diversity of Los Angeles. Through imaginative

03/07/2026

🦀🩻⚕️ORIGINAL VISION V: MENAGERIE is coming to 8pm April 24th and 25th - and tickets are available at the link in our comments!

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.

01/06/2026

82% funded! 🤩 Will you help us take it to the finish line and get new works to the stage by O-Lan Jones Murphy Stevenson, George Landau-Pincus, Brian Sonia-Wallace, and Samara Rice?!

Overtone Industries' End of Year Fundraising Campaign

01/01/2026

Happy New Year! 🎊🎆 The news is heavy, there is much to fight, but making art with and for you all keeps us going. Cheers to 2026, may it be our best year yet! 🤞

12/31/2025

New Year’s Eve is here at last - have you got your ready? 😉 What about NEW WORK resolutions?! You can take inspiration from Original Vison 2026 participants .obj and .severt - and support our year-end campaign with a tax-deductible donation at https://givebutter.com/LWF3Sa! 🎉

We’ll be workshopping a scene from their new opera Carcinize! Librettist George Landau-Pincus resolves, “to dive into the depths of what it means to be alone,” and composer Murphy Severtson resolves, “to stargaze in wonder, despite the crabs pinching our toes.” 🦀 🌟

Thank you for all your support in 2025 - we can’t wait to see what we accomplish together in 2026!

12/30/2025

It’s the eve of New Year’s Eve…eve! 🤔 That’s an excellent time for thinking up New Year’s resolutions - and new WORK resolutions 🎉 Take, for example, Original Vision composer-librettist team Brian Sonia-Wallace and Samara Rice!

For their work-in-progress, librettist Brian Sonia-Wallace is setting the intention, “to transcend grief and distance and time,” and composer Samara Rice shares, “As time suspends, the journey begins.” ⏳

BUT time is running out on our year end campaign! 🤯 We can’t wait to share how their work develops in Original Vision - but we can only do it with your help.

If you’re able, please consider making a donation to our year-end campaign to support genre-defying new opera at https://givebutter.com/LWF3Sa. It is so very appreciated 💜