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Mad Men Comes to The Barns
A first look: photos from Sunday night’s rehearsal. First night with costumes, hair and makeup, so there will be adjustments made as we go through the week. But this should give you a idea of what’s in store :) (hit the play arrow, then click the arrows in bottom right corner if you’d like to
Read MoreCezanne & Matisse, Meet Schubert & Sondheim
This afternoon’s Vocal Colors concert was a real treat. Beautiful modern art from The Phillips Collection paired with a most excellent range of songs. Jamie-Rose sang Wolf, Barber, Gordon and Strauss; Catherine gave us DuParc, Heggie, Sondheim and Williams (DAR:)); and Ed offered Finzi, Schubert and Faure. Oh, and Jeremy tore up the piano in
Read MoreThe Curious Women: From the Page to the Podium with Gary Wedow
Le donne curiose conductor Gary Thor Wedow (Zaide 2010, The Return of Ulysses 2009) talks about the rare gem that is Wolf-Ferrari’s Curious Women. Spend 5 minutes with Gary. You’ll be glad you did.
Read MoreTech Week Recipe: Adding Flavor
6 days till opening. Orchestra arrives. Two days in the rehearsal hall, then it’ll be time to fit this: … into this: We’ve done it before, and we’ll do it again. This music is as beautiful as I imagined. Granted, I’m pretty familiar with it by this time, but it’s still exciting to be surprised
Read MoreCurioser and Curioser
Here’s your glimpse inside our first unbroken sprint through the entire opera! Enjoy this slideshow from this afternoon’s Curious Women run-through. In street clothes, in the rehearsal room, but with plenty of verve :) NOTE: Updated on 6/9 with images from final room run. Into the theatre on Saturday!
Read MoreBackstage Buzz, the Wolf-Ferrari Episode
Tuesday, June 7 at 7:30 pm – Free, no reservation required We get to sit down with some of the fabulous people behind The Curious Women at Tuesday evening’s Backstage Buzz artist panel discussion. We’ll ask conductor Gary Wedow what it feels like to handle orchestra parts that were probably touched by Toscanini, we’ll find
Read MoreA Musical Memorial Day Weekend
An unexpected (and lovely) surprise for my Memorial Day weekend: I thought I’d be spending it with Wolf-Ferrari, but tonight and tomorrow night, I have some additional companions… WTOC alum Paul Appleby was invited by Garrison Keillor to sing on A Prairie Home Companion at Wolf Trap this weekend, and I was in turn invited
Read MoreCurious Women via YouTube
A blast from the Wolf-Ferrari past, with Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra* in 1947: *The NBC Symphony Orchestra was established especially for conductor Arturo Toscanini, and it performed weekly radio concert broadcasts from 1937 till 1954. A few words from Samuel Chotzinoff, NBC music chief during those years: “A medium already existed that
Read MoreWolf-Ferrari meets Mad Men
Sketches for the eponymous curious women and the gentlemen who frequent the men’s club. Courtesy Camille Assaf, costume designer. Click through to our Flickr photostream to see all the costume sketches for The Curious Women.
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