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Do you tweet? Have you wondered what all the fuss is about? No matter the answer, here’s a fun way to check out Twitter. Go to search.twitter.com and enter #operaplot into the search box. You’ll be hooked into a recent craze/competition, the goal of which is to reduce an opera plot into 140 characters (the

Tickets on sale tomorrow (3/28) at 10am! See previous post for rep details.Start here (Barns) and here (Filene Center) to get tickets.Write me with questions. The backlog of work is killing me, in a very unkind and inappropriate way for March. Thoughtful (or what passes for thoughtful) blogging will resume next week with pre-production posts

WTOC 2009 season just announced! See below, and go here for details on the Wolf Trap website. MOZARTCosì fan tutteThe School for Lovers The Barns at Wolf Trap (New Production) June 26, 28(m), 30 “A thousand times a day, women change their affections.Some call it vice, others call it a habit.To me it seems a

I’ve thought about this a lot over the last few months. It started with a concert I played in January, in collaboration with WTOC alums Keith Phares and Patricia Risley. It had been about ten years since I’d worked with either of them, and it was such a pleasure to reconnect. As professional singers who

I have great and grandiose literary plans. Early spring may be my only realy chance to read until next year, so I’m wasting no time. Already underway: Geoff Colvin’s Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else. (Short answer? Deliberate practice.) Paired with Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. (Gist? Success is at the intersection

We’re a few weeks away from our season announce (and the lifting of my blog embargo on 2009 rep details). As is always the case in the late winter, we’re working furiously on projects about which I can’t write. Ergo, lack of substance. Well, at least a plausible excuse for it… Anyone will be able

I spent most of today doing spreadsheets, so the language center of my brain is in hiding. Cowering, actually, under piles of numbers. Therefore, in lieu of legitimate blog content, a few diversions: Recent Searches That Led Folks to this Blog How to tie rope to opera house traps (uh, come again?) Kim Whitman blog

Over on Greg Sandow’s blog, he’s talking about going viral. I’ve been half-heartedly experimenting with Twitter since last year, and I’ll have to say that I’m still not convinced. I can easily see the potential here, and I know that it’s already working for some people in certain niches. And although I consider myself a

A look in the rear-view mirror at the recent Inspector from Rome workshop: The Goal We set out to put Act One of this new opera “on its feet,” since that’s the only real way to figure out what works and what doesn’t (and everything in between). We get a chance to adjust the piece

The reality of producing and playing a workshop has eclipsed (well, smashed…) any hopes of systematically blogging about it. I will have to do so in the past tense. Later this week when the dust settles. We’ve been working steadily all week, and colleagues from OTSL (with whom we co-commissioned Inspector) arrive today for our