You get In Series Opera’s premiere co-production with Catapult Opera of St. John the Baptist, a show so fantastic I had to see it twice. The setting, action, and characters were all so captivating, at once pathetic, sympathetic, and grotesque. And all told through a well-written new English libretto (a feat unto itself) set to an unbelievably gorgeous Baroque score. It was funny, it was heart wrenching, it was disturbing and twisted, in all the best ways. The entire cast was brilliant, but I would be remiss not to shout out Dawna Rae Warren‘s virtuosic Salome and Hayley Abramowitz‘s powerful, simmering Herodias. There is a full video of the production freely available to watch through the company’s website, which I can’t recommend enough.