Part Two of Anne Midgette’s survey of new American opera ran in the Post yesterday, and we got some nice ink for our recent and future commissioning activity. (Do click through – it’s a good read.) Part One ran last Sunday, on the day of our WTOC Artist Welcome Reception, and quite a few donors
Read MorePosts Tagged: new opera
New Opera: Good Things Come in Small Packages
July 3, 2010 New Opera: Good Things Come in Small Packages Hot off the presses today at the Wolf Trap Opera Company is an interview with WTOC Director Kim Pensinger Witman, which features prominently in the second of Anne Midgette’s two-part analysis of the future of American Opera in the Washington Post. The article includes
Read MoreInspecting: Done, done, and done.
The Inspector workshop lasted just six days -intense, full of laughter, and infused by the good will and hard work of our cast and staff. Any just description deserves more time and space than I can afford here, already engulfed as I am by the beginning of our summer season. Let it be said that
Read MoreInspecting: The Uninspector
There’s a great opera parlor game that involves naming characters who have a great bearing on an opera plot and are referred to in the libretto but who never actually appear. We’ve gone one better – in The Inspector, it’s the title character who never shows up. No matter, for everyone onstage spends the whole
Read MoreInspecting: The Ladies
Meet the ladies of Mayor Fazzobaldi‘s family, descriptions courtesy of Mark Campbell’s libretto: Bernadetta: Mezzo-soprano. 40s–50s. Physically akin to her husband the Mayor, but taller. Pretentious, vain, and not above having a lust for power—and material gain—that is stronger than her husband’s. Beatrice: Soprano. Late 20s. Their daughter. As thin and delicate in physique as
Read MoreInspecting: Fazzobaldi
This week we’re workshopping the next Musto/Campbell opera. The Inspector will premiere next spring at The Barns, and we’re taking it apart and putting it back together stem-to-stern. Today, meet Mayor Fazzobaldi [pronounced Fatso Baldy for those of you who don’t speak Italian:)) Baritone. 40s–50s. Short, corpulent, bombastic, bellicose, and bumbling, a man driven by his
Read More