Audition application deadlines are rolling around earlier this year, and the east coast component is first at bat. Get your application in by Friday, September 24 to be considered for our first three stops (see list in right sidebar). Plans are underway for this year’s iteration of the audition season blog. Be afraid. Be very
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WTOC Announces Early Audition Tour!
August 20, 2010 The Wolf Trap Opera Company is now accepting applications for its 2011 Company of Artists & Fellows. The first deadline for applications is little over one month away (September 24)! The audition tour begins in New York this October, and finishes at our home in Vienna, Virginia. (Look to the Audition Calendar
Read MoreTrip away; make no stay…
The summer was an exhausting, amazing, and beautiful thing. But 15 weeks of long days and little time to breathe have left us a little worse for wear. The to-do list is long, as application review and auditions, the premiere of The Inspector, and preparations for the 40th anniversary WTOC season are added to essential
Read MoreBehind the Curtain: Family Day at the Opera
This morning, enthusiastic children and their families were treated to our first Family Day event – a special collaboration between Wolf Trap Opera & Wolf Trap Education! Participants had a chance to… … have a photo taken on the Midsummer Night’s Dream set …. … make their own fairy masks (here, a young participant working
Read MoreBehind the Curtain
August 15, 2010 Behind the Curtain: Family Day at the Opera! Media Outlets are reporting on tomorrow’s family event. We’re getting excited to allow families with children to have some fun with our artists tomorrow! Only two spots remain for the event… Register now at www.wolftrap.org! Washington Examiner Baltimore Sun Washington Post
Read MoreA Midsummer Photo Diary
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. A Midsummer Night’s Dream Music by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Libretto adapted from William Shakespeare by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears The Barns at Wolf Trap 2010 August 13 at 8pm, August 15
Read MoreFinal 2010 Backstage Buzz Artist Panel
August 8, 2010 Final 2010 Backstage Buzz Artist Panel On Tuesday, August 10 at 1:00pm, WTOC Director Kim Witman will speak with A Midsummer Night’s Dream stage director Patrick Diamond, scenic designer Erhard Rom, soprano Ashlyn Rust (Titania), mezzo-soprano Catherine Martin (Hermia), countertenor Ryan Belongie (Oberon) & bass Nicholas Masters (Bottom). Admission is free, and
Read MoreYoda, Justin & SpongeBob meet the WTOS
This past week, members of the Wolf Trap Opera Studio took their fabulous Instant Opera! improvised opera to hundreds of children in the magical part of Wolf Trap National Park called the Children’s Theatre-in-the-Woods. Five years ago, I was onstage with the singers, developing this incredible project with Jim Doyle (of Comedy Sportz, and now
Read MoreWhirldwind Trip: Tanglewood & Glimmerglass
My raw envy of the Tanglewood Theatre’s fly space and ample orchestra pit is mitigated by thankfulness for our air conditioning at The Barns at Wolf Trap. Yo-Yo Ma and James Taylor sharing the stage while neither playing up nor down to each other’s genres is a simple and beautiful thing. The words “fully endowed
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10:18 am with Titania & Bottom in rehearsal “Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed, While I thy amiable cheeks do coy, And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head, And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.” 12:34 pm: Artist Transpo A quiet moment waiting at the Hilton, catching up on email
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