There’s a good number of show folk in my life who greet a performance day with the phrase above. Many days, I call up my Facebook feed and find someone with this wonderfully exuberant phrase as their status update. Yes, there are show days that are tough – fatigue, illness, nerves, other distractions. But much
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Summer 2012. Just the facts, with links to the Wolf Trap website for casting and other details: Operas at The Barns Don Giovanni June 29, July 1(m), 5 & 7 The Rake’s Progress August 3, 5(m) & 11 Concerts & Recitals From Bel Canto to Can Belto with Steven Blier July 15 at The Barns
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By Lee Anne Myslewski, Co-Manager, Wolf Trap Opera Studio Most of you who read this blog are familiar with our modus operandi for casting our Filene Young Artists: we find the best singers and then choose repertoire that will highlight their particular strengths. We follow a similar framework with the Studio Artists. Granted, we’re a
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I spent the week in Houston, in a bit of unplanned time on the piano bench, coaching some young singers. (The jury’s still out as to whether that was a good idea, but it’s behind me now, and I survived.) In these few minutes before I desperately try to catch up on all of my
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A guest post from my colleague Lee Anne Myslewski I said I would write this blog post. I had a great idea and everything! But boy, am I struggling to put it into words. You see, I want to talk about youthful enthusiasm – it’s one of those things that, as a company, we have
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I’m not a visual person. My first instinct is to hear, touch, smell, taste, guess… almost anything except see. It comes therefore as a bit of a surprise that our relatively recent forays into vocal concerts with visual prompts have resonated so strongly with me. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park & Mahler’s “Ging heut Morgen übers
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Here at Wolf Trap Opera in January, the volunteers outnumber the rest of us. How fortunate we are to have this small army of dedicated opera lovers! Last year, our four regular volunteers logged over 600 hours, and their time and talents have quickly become indispensable. John Feather‘s natural habitat is the media room of
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I spent this workday morning at an event that was both somber and joyous – a memorial service for a member of the Wolf Trap family. Mary Frances Pearson founded Wolf Trap’s Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts in 1981, and she was a steadfast and enthusiastic fan of Wolf Trap, its education programs
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On this day celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a link to a letter he sent to Sammy Davis, Jr. in December of 1960.
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It’s been a long week. We’re saying bon voyage to a valuable member of our team. Since 2009, Ryan Taylor has been our Manager of Community Development, our summer marketing and development liaison, our 2012 season audition consultant, an invaluable colleague and a wonderful periodic addition to our small regular staff in the”off” season. He’s
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