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Is it possible to perform the comedy Zerbinetta and her Lovers and the tragic opera Ariadne at the same time? Yes, when the richest man in Vienna wants it that way!
Past Performances This Season
Happy Birthday to Two!
Celebrating Bernstein & Bolcom
Recital with Steven Blier
Steven Blier and five Wolf Trap Opera Company singers celebrate the anniversary years of two of the giants of American musical theatre and opera—Leonard Bernstein and William Bolcom.
May 31, 2008
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Candide in concert
Conductor Stephen Lord and the National Symphony Orchestra again work their magic in this concert staging format starring Jason Alexander.
July 6, 2008
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Alcina
The landscape of enchantress Alcina’s island is littered—literally—with the remnants of past love affairs. One of Handel’s most gorgeous operas asks whether true love renders us powerless or sets us free.July 11 and July 15, 2008
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Instant Opera!
A pizza-eating princess in distress, a castle in Baltimore, and Batman?
Tuesday, July 15 - Saturday, July 19
at Wolf Trap's Children's Theatre-in-the-Woods
Each summer since 2005, the Wolf Trap Opera Company has been in residence for a week at the Children’s-Theatre-in-the-Woods, spinning crazy operatic tales with the help of children of all ages.
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Tales from the Vienna Woods
Recital with Steven Blier
Saturday, July 19 at 8 pm at The BarnsSteven Blier celebrates his 25th recital collaboration with Wolf Trap by bringing back his first WTOC concert, Tales from the Vienna Woods, first heard at The Barns on July 24, 1994.
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The primary mission of the Opera Company is to discover and encourage the finest emerging talent in the opera field.
- The Company serves young singers of exceptional achievement and potential who are at an interim point between academic training and full-time professional operatic careers.
- All solo roles—leading, featured, and supporting—are cast from among the group of 15-20 resident young artists of the Wolf Trap Opera Company, known as the Filene Young Artists.
- Through internships and fellowships, the Company provides opportunities for college-age directors, coach/accompanists, stage managers, technicians, and opera administrators.
- All productions are professionally conducted, directed, coached, and designed. They are performed in original language with full orchestra.
Filene Young Artist Spotlight
Maria Markina
Mezzo-sopranoBradamante, Alcina
Liam Moran
BassMelisso, Alcina
Truffaldino / Haushofmeister, Ariadne auf Naxos
NSO Beethoven’s Best
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