Posts Categorized: 2012 Season

Don Derecho: The Timeline

I hate that all my recent blog posts have been terse announcements, but it’s been quite the ride. As we sit waiting for electricity to be restored (something that Dominion Power told us will happen any minute now…), I offer this recap. (Photo at left from the Rake music rehearsal taking place in my house

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7/1 GIOVANNI Performance Rescheduled for 7/3

The Wolf Trap Opera Company’s Sunday, July 1 performance of Don Giovanni at The Barns has been cancelled. A replacement performance has been scheduled for Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at 7:00 pm. (Preshow talk at 6pm) If you are a ticketholder for the Sunday, July 1 performance, your ticket will be honored on Tuesday, July

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Sunday, July 1 DON GIOVANNI Performance Canceled

11:17 am / Sunday, July 1, 2012 The Wolf Trap Opera Company’s Sunday, July 1 performance of Don Giovanni at The Barns has been cancelled. A replacement performance has been scheduled for Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at 7:00 pm. If you are a ticketholder for the Sunday, July 1 performance, your ticket will be honored

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Liszt & Gormley, Gershwin & Degas, Rachmaninoff & Chagall

This summer’s Vocal Colors performance at The Phillips Collection (1600 21st St NW, Washington, DC, near 21st and Q Streets) will take place tomorrow night, June 28. Today, Wolf Trap employees were treated to our dress rehearsal held here at the Center for Education. Vocal Colors concerts are artist-driven, artist-programmed evenings, during which the performers

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Let’s Talk

It’s 10pm on Saturday night, and we’re in the theatre for our first technical rehearsal. These days the Giovanni train is running me over (in the best possible way:)), and the blog is sitting over in the corner, unjustly ignored. There are photos and anecdotes to come in the next few days, but for now, I have just

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Studio Shuffle

Wednesday’s Little Lunch Music concert for Wolf Trap Foundation employees featured four of our Studio Artists. In a preview of next month’s Aria Jukebox concert format, the audience chose the selections. Thanks to mezzo-soprano Aleksandra Romano, baritone Brian Vu, soprano Courtney Johnson and tenor Yoni Rose for some amazing midday music. (See below the photo

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Load In!

It’s time to squeeze the Giovanni set through the sliding glass doors on the side of the German Barn and up the ramp to the stage. (My kingdom for a loading dock… or an elevator…) And while we were at it, we had a lovely lunch with the crews of the scene and costume shops

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Dancing

by Lee Anne Myslewski Imagine waking up on a clear morning at the beginning of a new artistic adventure…the sun is high, the humidity is already in the air. And you’re headed to one of the largest outdoor theaters in the US…to that sacred backstage space. When you arrive you meet a tiny blonde pixie

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