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The Rake’s Progress clock cannot be turned back again, and we must move on. Summer 2012 was a wonderful ride. Thanks to all those on both sides of the footlights who made it so. I’m off to Santa Fe and then San Francisco (Merola) for this week, then off the grid completely for a week

by Lee Anne Myslewski Aaaah, the end of summer. Heavy, hot, lazy days, made for moving slowly, drinking tall glasses of lemonade beaded with condensation, napping. For the Wolf Trap Opera Studio Artists, however, the end of summer is not nearly so leisurely. Roaring Boys & Bedlam They’re singing in the chorus of Stravinsky’s The

  The Rake’s Progress, Production Preview from Wolf Trap Opera Company on Vimeo.

Audition applications for the 2013 season are now being accepted at our interactive application website. The first application deadline is September 9, 2012. Basic information and background are here.  

by Lee Anne Myslewski When this little corner of the internet gets quiet, you can tell that we’re up to our ears in opera. Case in point: this past week. Let’s recap, shall we? Sunday. Powerless in the derecho’s aftermath. We had the inaugural Wolf Trap Opera Reverse-Telethon – where we called patrons to let

By Lee Anne Myslewski, Co-Manager, Wolf Trap Opera Studio Most of you who read this blog are familiar with our modus operandi for casting our Filene Young Artists: we find the best singers and then choose repertoire that will highlight their particular strengths. We follow a similar framework with the Studio Artists. Granted, we’re a

A guest post from my colleague Lee Anne Myslewski I said I would write this blog post. I had a great idea and everything! But boy, am I struggling to put it into words. You see, I want to talk about youthful enthusiasm – it’s one of those things that, as a company, we have

I’m not a visual person. My first instinct is to hear, touch, smell, taste, guess… almost anything except see. It comes therefore as a bit of a surprise that our relatively recent forays into vocal concerts with visual prompts have resonated so strongly with me. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park & Mahler’s “Ging heut Morgen übers