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Warm winter wishes go out to all of you from your friends at Wolf Trap! Christmas came early here at WTOC, in the form of the news that we will be adding a new person to our year-round team. Know anyone who wants to help us make opera magic and promote the best amazing young

Today’s contest on Wolf Trap’s Facebook Page (go ahead, click it, like it, you know you want to…) asked patrons to submit their favorite Wolf Trap memory. The Wolf Trap Foundation is our parent organization, and it presents hundreds of concerts every year across a dizzying array of genres. We love opera, you and I,

We’ve spent the last month or so listening and writing, thinking and writing, analyzing and writing. So much writing. 89, 425 words, actually.* A novel-length output just north of Orwell’s 1984 (88,942) and south of Tolkien’s The Hobbit (95,022). A lot of words for sure. But how else to keep track of 590 singers? We

Last day of auditions. Just enough time and brain cells to let you know that Aria Frequency lists for all voice types are now here. Back at you later, when people stop singing arias at me.

I’m told that typical casualties of Mercury in Retrograde are travel problems and mechanical breakdowns. Houston is typically one of the happiest stops on our audition tour, but this year it seems that Mercury had other plans for our Texan trip. I can’t say I wasn’t warned. It started with a 4-hour mechanical-difficulty delay flying

The singing has started, and the audition tour is ON! We’re already on Day 2 in New York, and we’ve heard more Handel this weekend than we sometimes do in a whole month. Trend? Hmmm…. A reminder: If you would like to be considered to sing for us in Cincinnati (November 6, 7, 8) or

Dress rehearsal done. Production meeting over. Overnight crew fed. Lighting and projections tech continue. Darkness. Quiet. Humidity. Art.

After this afternoon’s orchestra load-in and sound check, a 2-hour “spacing” rehearsal. We’re fast-forwarding through the opera, cue-to-cue, allowing the singers a short time to acclimate to the new environment. It’s hot. You thought I meant the temperature? Nah, that’s nothing… This opera is hot.

It’s almost here… At the charming Children’s-Theatre-in-the-Woods…. Instant Opera! Final rehearsal was this afternoon, and Wolf Trap employees stopped by to engineer the Mad Libs-style plots. Following their suggestions, this is what happened in the world of opera this afternoon: Golem stole Liza Minelli’s jewels. Hillary Clinton and Godzilla had a outer space battle over