Posts Tagged: Ghosts15

Composer and librettist in the house. Rousing ovation. Tons of heart, soul and talent from the 73 people onstage and the many dozen more behind the scenes. It was a highly calculated and meticulously orchestrated leap of faith, and the rewards were more numerous that we could have imagined. Above, L-R: The Ghosts of Versailles stage director Louisa Muller,

In tomorrow’s print edition of The Washington Post, and available now online, an interview with The Ghosts of Versailles composer John Corigliano. Corigliano’s “The Ghosts of Versailles” took 12 years to write — it wasn’t even premiered until 1991, a full eight years after the centenary season — and it called for, in its original form, two

This afternoon, our Ghosts conductor Eric Melear was joined by his Vienna State Opera colleague Thomas Lausmann (a former Trapper himself) for a discussion on auditioning and working in Europe. (Above: Thomas joins the discussion via Facetime, from the other Vienna:)) The availability of entry-level career experiences in the U.S. has taken a nose dive in the last 6-8 years,

Last February, we traveled to Los Angeles to see LA Opera’s Ghosts of Versailles. As you might imagine, our up-close-and-personal production at The Barns differs from the one we saw at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Both have their unique charms, but there’s one particular element of the LA Ghosts that we coveted… Knowing that if we were to

Beaumarchais, Marie Antoinette and their Ghosts cohorts give us the inside scoop.

Learn more about The Ghosts of Versailles from the folks who are shaping our production – conductor Eric Melear and stage director Louisa Muller! (And discover how excited they are to be back at The Trap:))

The third in a series of short posts that will get you ready for The Ghosts of Versailles, a few easily digestible paragraphs at a time. I’ve already introduced you to the Ghosts of the opera’s title and the Figaro characters of the opera-within-the-opera. Today, we meet an important character who inhabits the same scenes as those Figaro characters. His name