Opera News and Events at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts
Aria Frequency Lists Are Up!
by KimSat, 10 Nov 2018 01:23:58 +0000
Data nerds, rejoice, the aria lists from this fall’s audition tour are now available on our Audition Resources page. And, as a special bonus this year, the spreadsheet with tabs for all voice types is available as a Google Sheet for download, sorting, and churning here. A little under-the-hood info for those of you who follow and
Upcoming: WTO Vocal Colors Recital in NYC
by KimFri, 26 Oct 2018 19:13:54 +0000
Going to be in NYC in a couple of weeks? Catch some sumptuous Wolf Trap Opera singing on Friday, November 9, when two of our 2018 Filene Artists — mezzo-soprano Megan Mikailovna Samarin and tenor Ian Koziara — take the stage at the National Opera Center, collaborating with WTO pianist/coach Joseph Li. The concert is part of Opera America’s Emerging Artist Recital Series,
https://opera.wolftrap.org/upcoming-wto-vocal-colors-recital-nyc/
Change is Good
by KimTue, 16 Oct 2018 16:21:50 +0000
[tl;dr – I’m retiring this winter. Be happy for me!] I began writing in this space 14 years ago this fall. The blogosphere wasn’t very crowded in 2004, and it took me a while to explain and justify this relatively new medium to my Wolf Trap colleagues. At that time, web sites were surprisingly static
Audition Tour: Home Stretch!
by KimTue, 09 Oct 2018 02:12:14 +0000
Want a glimpse of our travels to cities number 4 & 5 on this year’s tour? Miss the first installment? Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and Houston are here.
2019 Audition Tour Musings
by KimTue, 09 Oct 2018 01:58:06 +0000
We’re almost done… One more day of auditions at our home base in Vienna, and then it’s off to the drawing board (well, literally, a big ol’ white board) to choose some repertoire and select singers! On today’s blog menu are some fragments of would-be posts… things that I wanted to share along the way
Video Stream Expires on Sunday!
by KimWed, 26 Sep 2018 01:48:08 +0000
It’s almost the end of September… You know what that means? You have just a few more days to catch the time-limited video stream of our 2017 season productions of The Juniper Tree and Bastianello! One deliciously creepy, the other sweetly comical. “Charming and chilling, a children’s opera for thinking children (also known as ‘adults’)” The New York
Keeping Up With the Audition Tour
by KimMon, 24 Sep 2018 22:17:10 +0000
If you follow us on Facebook (and btw, if you don’t, you should!:)), you might have seen the clips below. I’m sharing them here for those of you who eschew social media, or those whose feed algorithm hasn’t faithfully served them up! Chicago, New York, and Virginia await.
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by KimThu, 20 Sep 2018 14:02:10 +0000
Four audition days in the rearview, eleven to go. Random observations on auditions so far, shared from Terminal B at CVG airport, where we were deposited by a chatty Uber driver, where I can’t find a water bottle filling station (3 for 3 airports so far… what the heck?), and where we are over an
Untranslatable Words: Audition Tour Edition
by KimSun, 16 Sep 2018 17:21:50 +0000
During her pre-audition visit to LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Lee Anne picked up a box of Untranslatable Words (20 cards of Perfect Words from Other Languages). We’ve decided to feature one of them on each day of this 2019 Season Audition Tour. Check back here or on the WTO Facebook page for updates! WALDEINSAMKEIT [GERMAN]
https://opera.wolftrap.org/untranslatable-words-audition-tour-edition/
List of Starter Arias
by KimSun, 16 Sep 2018 14:22:57 +0000
Hi, singer friends. As y’all are preparing your aria packages for this audition season, I thought you might want to see these lists of first arias from last year’s audition tour. Unlike the master Aria Frequency Lists (which represent the full complement of 4 arias that singers put on their applications), these starter aria lists represent the
