Posts Categorized: 2014 Season

Well, that happened. Personal bests from our singers, an unbelievably beautiful summer night, and 6,000 souls in the audience. Hundreds of people onstage and off pulled our little company through its biggest project of the year, and it was a night to remember. We got a lot of press (good, bad, rarely indifferent…) for the technological

We now leave the rehearsal room, that place that saw this production come to life and is now too small to hold it. It’s on to the Kennedy Center (orchestra rehearsals Tuesday and Wednesday) and the Filene Center stage (tech rehearsals Wednesday and Thursday night.) I’ve been busier than usual in recent weeks and haven’t witnessed as many rehearsals

David Pogue is going to be in my opera!!! OMG!!! Sorry. Had to get the fangirl reaction out of the way. I know there are opera lovers out there who toil away providing valuable science and engineering services to society, many of whom wish they had continued with piano lessons and become musicians. I sit here on the

I have been facing inward these last few weeks, preparing the Great Ship Carmen for its sailing. Battening down the hatches, clearing the decks, all those things. But now it’s time to bring all of you into the excitement as we head toward this one-night-only event in Wolf Trap’s beautiful amphitheater, the Filene Center. (photo from last year’s performance

Guest post by Mina Asayesh-Brown When I took a tour of The Barns at Wolf Trap as part of my summer copywriting internship, I never thought I would be performing in an opera on their stage just a few weeks later. Maybe the phrase “performing in an opera” is misleading: I’m a supernumerary (or “super”

Do you know someone who’s curious about opera? Wolf Trap Opera is seeking “opera newbies” to participate in our New Audience Study. Participants receive free tickets to the 2014 season operas!* If you’re interested, write to us before June 15. If you’re already a fan (and you likely are, if you read this blog…), take this opportunity

The scissors have been out for the entire month of March. A beautiful opera that lasts more than four hours must be trimmed. (And as so many of us know personally after a long winter of cold and sloth, trimming is hard work…) Yet, the musical scissors must be wielded, and almost an hour’s worth

Yeah, I know it’s cold. And wet. And dark. But summer is right around the corner… 2014 season tickets go on sale tomorrow – Saturday, March 29 at 10am ! LINKS Wolf Trap Opera homepage Carmen… Outdoors at Wolf Trap’s beautiful amphitheatre. Just thinking about an opera picnic makes me happy right about now. Giulio Cesare… Handel