I cannot wait to hear Steve and Joseph take on the tango… Be there. Astor Piazzolla: Fuga y misterio
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Hi-ho, Four of a Kind!
Today and tomorrow, we are fortunate to hear from Steve Blier of the New York Festival of Song. On today’s NYFOS blog (No Song is Safe from Us), Steve shares his excitement about his upcoming Four of a Kind performances at The Barns: Gershwin: Hi-Ho!
Read MoreGetting Ready to Listen
The first week of rehearsals for Listen, Wilhelmina! is in the books. Ranger Nat and wombats Winston, Wallis and Wilhelmina will perform this brand new opera for 3,000 preschoolers in mid-May. (And you can catch a show – with or without a preschooler in tow – in July!) I mentioned to librettist Kathleen Kelly and composer David
Read MoreOpening our Ears with Wilhelmina
Today, a bit of wisdom from one of the creators of our first opera of the summer season. We’re getting ready for Wilhelmina and her wombat friends, and rehearsals start tomorrow. (Yikes!) It is going to be a distinct pleasure to team up with our colleagues in Wolf Trap Education on this ridiculously enjoyable mini opera
Read MoreChristmas in April
One of the best things about April is the design deadlines. (Well, maybe not from the perspective of the designers, but…) Every few days brings new “gifts” to be unwrapped – a notification that costume sketches are ready for download or set model photos are waiting to be viewed. From here on out, the shows
Read MoreA Supertitle Sunday
My Easter Sunday was probably not like yours. In my down time yesterday morning (I’ve been a church musician for 47 years, so this isn’t my first rodeo…), I tried to catch up on work by writing supertitles. But it was a little disorienting to sandwich Scarpia between services, and translating Tosca while in a church does create
Read MoreFrom 0 to 60*
Just about 12 weeks ago, we were fresh off our fall audition tour, staring at an exciting and maddening void. No rep planned, no performances scheduled, no one hired. And somehow, tomorrow we go on sale. 3 opera productions on our main stages, 2 additional productions in exciting new places, a great 10th anniversary scenes program for our Studio
Read MoreTosca: In Her Own Words
Tickets for Tosca and the rest of the 2017 season go on sale Saturday (3/18) at 10 am. Today’s inspiration comes courtesy of soprano Alexandra Loutsion, who sings the title role in our July 14 production on the big stage. What is it like to prepare an iconic role like this? How does Alex reconcile the psychological
Read MoreWolf Trap Does Glass@80
Philip Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times, and the musical world marks his 80th birthday in 2017. WTO is happy to join in the celebration with two productions, as last fall’s audition tour included an unusually strong slate of singing actors for whom this idiom is a
Read MoreTouchstone: The Recipe
Many rarely produced serious operas by Rossini have enjoyed recent outings in the U.S.: La donna del lago (Santa Fe and The Met), Ciro in Babilonia and Aureliano in Palmira (Caramoor), and Mosè in Egitto (NYCO) have been among them. But La pietra del paragone (The Touchstone) has been largely neglected*, and we’re about to change that. As always, the path to this show is
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