Posts Categorized: Auditions

As we leave New York, we seem to be suffering from multiple systems failure. I’m not referring to the BSOD that plagued my laptop earlier this week – that was remedied in surprisingly efficient fashion, thanks to terrific IT support from Wolf Trap and a few handy screwdrivers from the tech staff at Carroll Music.

REVISED AS OF 12/5/08I should know better than to try to churn out data while I’m on the road, saddled by a technology curse. Please find below a corrected list of WTOS aria offerings. KPW At 3pm, my laptop turned into a doorstop. I’m trying not to curse it, but 9 hours later I think

The two days back in home territory at Wolf Trap flew by. As we heard 12 hours of auditions, furiously did laundry, repacked, and ran off to catch the train, my wise husband asked what kind of idiot made up this masochistic audition schedule. Uh… At least this time, it was the train. So civilized

In which a petite puppet-master in the reflects on her trio of travelers…and the ease in which they’re moving through their annual pilgrimage. As her thoughts circle, the wind changes directions…as do the fates of her travelers…) Prologue The alarms go off at 7:00 a.m. In three hotel rooms in Cincinnati, the weary travelers groan

We were in War Memorial’s chorus rehearsal room for yesterday’s auditions. First time in a long time we’ve actually held them in the opera house, and it was great to be there. Good friends rehearsing for Boheme down the hall and a matinee of Elixir down on the stage. Next year we’ll have to think

A gentle Santa Ana wind is blowing through LA. I even got out this morning to run my pitiful mile… trying to do it in each city… so far I’m 2 for 2:) We’re only in town for 26 hours, and it was a busy day, with both Studio Artist and Filene Young Artist auditions.

We have discovered a new use for Facebook. Rahree casually mentioned on her FB status that the hotel seems intent on putting decaf coffee packets in the rooms. And that it was having a deleterious effect on her morning. Fast forward a couple of hours to checking into the Wortham Center for today’s auditions, at

And so it begins. In another rehearsal room in a series of towns that all begin to look the same. Friends are jealous when I tell them that November means Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York and Philadelphia. But it’s really an unbroken series of the insides of airplanes, taxicabs, rehearsal rooms

In his recent Auditions Schmauditions post, Chris Foley linked back to his recap of last year’s Wolf Trap Opera aria frequency list. In reviewing it, I remembered that Chris had wondered aloud which arias were sung by the singers who ended up being chosen for this year’s company. Here you go. The first selection is