Last week’s Studio Spotlight performances were gutsy, gratifying, inspiring and exciting. Huge thanks go out to our twelve Studio Artists (listed below in context of their performances), pianists Eric McEnaney & Tomoko Nakayama, director Nathan Troup, assistant director Kelsey Carroll, stage manager Andrew Esposito, coach and supertitle coordinator Stephanie Rhodes, and Studio Co-Managers Lee Anne Myslewski
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Week in Review, Opera Style
by Lee Anne Myslewski When this little corner of the internet gets quiet, you can tell that we’re up to our ears in opera. Case in point: this past week. Let’s recap, shall we? Sunday. Powerless in the derecho’s aftermath. We had the inaugural Wolf Trap Opera Reverse-Telethon – where we called patrons to let
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Don Derecho: The Timeline
I hate that all my recent blog posts have been terse announcements, but it’s been quite the ride. As we sit waiting for electricity to be restored (something that Dominion Power told us will happen any minute now…), I offer this recap. (Photo at left from the Rake music rehearsal taking place in my house
Read More7/1 GIOVANNI Performance Rescheduled for 7/3
The Wolf Trap Opera Company’s Sunday, July 1 performance of Don Giovanni at The Barns has been cancelled. A replacement performance has been scheduled for Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at 7:00 pm. (Preshow talk at 6pm) If you are a ticketholder for the Sunday, July 1 performance, your ticket will be honored on Tuesday, July
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11:17 am / Sunday, July 1, 2012 The Wolf Trap Opera Company’s Sunday, July 1 performance of Don Giovanni at The Barns has been cancelled. A replacement performance has been scheduled for Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at 7:00 pm. If you are a ticketholder for the Sunday, July 1 performance, your ticket will be honored
Read MoreLiszt & Gormley, Gershwin & Degas, Rachmaninoff & Chagall
This summer’s Vocal Colors performance at The Phillips Collection (1600 21st St NW, Washington, DC, near 21st and Q Streets) will take place tomorrow night, June 28. Today, Wolf Trap employees were treated to our dress rehearsal held here at the Center for Education. Vocal Colors concerts are artist-driven, artist-programmed evenings, during which the performers
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Held & DeYoung take SF
A brief shout-out to two WTOC alumni who made some fearsome waves with the San Francisco Symphony this week: Alan Held and Michelle DeYoung in Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle.
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It’s 10pm on Saturday night, and we’re in the theatre for our first technical rehearsal. These days the Giovanni train is running me over (in the best possible way:)), and the blog is sitting over in the corner, unjustly ignored. There are photos and anecdotes to come in the next few days, but for now, I have just
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