The next two months are audition season, and they are the nerdiest time of the year here at the blog, with plenty of aria trivia and industry advice. New content kicks off next week, but to get you started, a random sampling of some previous audition posts to help you get your head in the
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The Fruits of Incongruity
I’ve always found that putting two dissimilar things side by side clarifies both of them. And looking back, I realize that most of the good ideas I’ve ever had come from tension between things that appear to war with one another. Since I believe that incongruous juxtaposition is one of the best ways to inspire
Read MoreApproaching Deadlines & Sketch Comedy
Well, two separate things (with any luck…), but ones that could co-exist nicely in your weekend. First, the application deadline for auditions in New York, San Francisco & Seattle is this Sunday. Fair warning; our website server is pretty robust, but it can get cranky around 11:55pm Eastern Time on Sunday. So if you’re thinking
Read MoreWhat’s It Really Like?
Today’s quick post features you having far more fun than I. (Even as you contemplate the fact that THE FIRST APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR NEXT SUMMER IS A WEEK FROM SUNDAY :o) !!) Today, I am making a dozen possible calendar templates for summer 2013, sucking blood from the budget stone, and updating the code on
Read More2013 Season Performance Info for Singers
To singers who are considering applying to audition for the 2013 season: We do not yet know if we will be producing two or three operas in summer 2013. That decision will be made during the October/November audition tour. I wish I had more information for you at this time, but I don’t. If we
Read MoreAudition Season is Here!
Final deadline for 2013 season applications is Sunday, September 23! Important links and dates at right.
Read MoreCurtain Down
The Rake’s Progress clock cannot be turned back again, and we must move on. Summer 2012 was a wonderful ride. Thanks to all those on both sides of the footlights who made it so. I’m off to Santa Fe and then San Francisco (Merola) for this week, then off the grid completely for a week
Read MoreStravinsky, the Musical Chameleon
It was a nerdy Friday night, with a wonderful collection of opera geeks in the Lecture Hall at the Center for Education. WTOC coach/pianist Jeremy Frank and four Studio Artists treated us to a whirlwind tour through Stravinsky’s musical styles. Our Fine Tuning series kicked off last year with a companion concert to our Tales of Hoffman production, “The Tale(nt)s
Read MoreThe Youngest Young Artists
Many things happening so quickly in this last week of the 2012 season: A morning with children and their families at The Barns – exploring all the many things it takes to make an opera… We built Baba Beards, learned how to conduct, collected fabric swatches, wrote supertitles and saw the short opera Tom’s Four
Read MoreAugust & the Studio Singer
by Lee Anne Myslewski Aaaah, the end of summer. Heavy, hot, lazy days, made for moving slowly, drinking tall glasses of lemonade beaded with condensation, napping. For the Wolf Trap Opera Studio Artists, however, the end of summer is not nearly so leisurely. Roaring Boys & Bedlam They’re singing in the chorus of Stravinsky’s The
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