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Images and sounds from Saturday evening’s fabulous Berlin Night Life: “That Old Bilbao Moon” Shopgirls’ Duet Mandelay The Wolf Trap Comedian Harmonists sing “Mein Onkel Bumba” For more photos, the program details and some audio clips, go here. Kudos to Steve Blier and cast for a memorable evening. If you missed it, there are a

Not doing very well at keeping up with the blog on a daily basis, always striving to do better. But sometimes the choice lies in creating opera or talking about it. Photos above – Berlin Night Life cast. Soloists and Comedian Harmonists. Photos below – snapshots from rehearsal. With Volpone in rehearsal, the Berlin Night

Yesterday, the news that there is a shortage of Rosco gold paint. Go figure. Just in time for the painting of our Volpone set, which is a not-so-subtle metaphor for uh… gold. And today, these photos from the shop – the building of the rake (the stage floor that’s angled toward the audience) and construction

Congratulations to TL, who became an American citizen on Friday. Not too many new Americans have the pleasure of celebrating by singing the Star Spangled Banner with the backup of an entire opera company. Volpone music rehearsals have been calm, methodical, and illuminating. We buffered in an extra 4 days of rehearsal for this show,

Today, the first in the series of our “Little Lunch Music” mini-concerts. Our office environment is very open, and once you start singing Kurt Weill in the atrium, there’s no escaping it! But as far as I can tell (from our trial concerts last summer), the WT Foundation employees enjoy their noontime musical diversion. We

Free-floating anxiety in the building today, as the Volpone cast gathers for the first time and slogs, uh….. sings through the score. :) The design presentation revealed a unit set (what other kind is there in The Barns?) that functions as a huge gold framework for the story. Which is, of course, is about lust.

I’ve been told that the new Wolf Trap Opera Studio has a Facebook page. (Thank goodness I’m not on Facebook… what I don’t know can’t hurt me:)) What does tickle me is that supposedly there’s a picture of an actual wolf trap instead of the WT logo. Perhaps that’s why PETA keeps trying to get

It’s May 18, Bike-To-Work-Day in the Washington D.C. area. My husband is a serious cyclist, and when I bought him a new bike for his birthday (a big one…birthday, that is…) last winter, I decided to get myself a modest little hybrid. Of course, I can’t keep up with him, but I’m trying. I passed

Mixed with the excitement of company arrivals are notes of frustration and regret. Our much-anticipated upcoming recording of Volpone is not to be. This is not the place to spin out all of the confusing and irritating details, but the American Federation of Musicians told us that there’s no nationally approved recording agreement whose conditions

From the time we choose our roster in early winter, the Company grows exponentially. And, for those first 6 months, everything from finances to pre-production planning to personnel to company management (travel, housing) is handled by 2.5 people. (Susan’s not really a half-person, she’s just lucky enough to work part-time:)) As winter turns to spring,