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PEOPLE of WTO Eric Owens Returns to Wolf Trap As Artist in Residence SUMMER 2014 ROSTER THE PEOPLE OF WTO Eric Owens returns to Wolf Trap as Artist in Residence............page 11 Matthew Ozawa discusses his two leading ladies....page 8 Maya Layhani explores her relationship with Carmen...................page 4 iOPERA We live in an age of customization. It’s been 15 years since iTunes launched us on the current trend of tailoring our music, our devices, and our experiences to our own tastes. You’ll be happy to know that Wolf Trap Opera was (not surprisingly, of course!) ahead of this curve, for we’ve been customizing our seasons to showcase the unique strengths of our singers for decades. The singers we heard in last fall’s audition tour inspired us to program an iconic Baroque work, a searingly sexy grand opera, and an evening of French one-acts in which the dramatic meets the absurd—a INSIDE THE ROSTER fascinating recipe for Summer 2014. Summer Calendar .......................... 17 Carmen features three returning artists: Maya Lahyani in the title role, GRAND OPERA Norman Garrett as Escamillo, and Ryan Speedo Green as Zuniga. The Carmen: Operascape .....................3 abundance of Baroque sensibility and countertenor/mezzo-soprano She and I ..............................................4 representation from our audition tour led to Handel’s Giulio Cesare, featuring returning artists Ying Fang and Carolyn Sproule. Poulenc’s Les OPERA AT THE BARNS mamelles de Tirésias has been on our wish list for a quite a few years, and Finding Julius Caesar .....................5 the return of Mireille Asselin gives us a rare chance to give this one-act Dramatic & Absurd .........................7 opera its Wolf Trap premiere. We pair it with another opera new to The Tales of Two Women ......................8 From Page to Pit ..............................8 Barns—Milhaud’s Le pauvre matelot, featuring another returning soprano, Tracy Cox. SONG & CONCERT Ten new singers complete the Filene Young Artist roster, and 16 talented Tuning into Les Six ..........................9 conservatory and university students form the Studio Artist group (featured Houseful of Song .............................9 in its own scenes program and in Tirésias). Steven Blier crafts another Vocal Colors .......................................9 Aria Jukebox ......................................11 debut recital (Houseful of Song) for The Barns, our artists explore the Beethoven’s 9th ................................ 17 relationship between music and visual art in Vocal Colors concerts at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and a quartet of singers bring their OUR SINGERS own interpretations to Beethoven’s 9th symphony with The Philadelphia Alumni Updates...............................10 Orchestra. Homecoming: Eric Owens ...........11 Filene Young Artists ...................... 12 And, as has become our custom, the audience will also personalize its Studio Artists .................................... 15 own program in Aria Jukebox. This year, the choose-your-own concert Studio Spotlight .............................. 15 features a special appearance by bass-baritone Eric Owens, our 2014 Artist in Residence. A Wolf Trap Opera alumnus who has starred at the Met and BEHIND THE SCENES other internationally recognized houses, Eric is thrilled for the chance to Language of L’amour ................... 16 return to WTO to mentor, encourage, and inspire a new generation of young Backstage Left ................................. 16 artists. LEARN MORE! Visit wolftrap.org/opera to create your own vocal music heaven. Summer Instant Opera!....................................6 has never sounded better! Master Class & Artist Panel ...............Back Cover OUR EXTENDED FAMILY Kim Pensinger Witman Senior Director Housing Hosts .................................. 18 Wolf Trap Opera & Classical Programming A Lasting Legacy ............................ 18 Introductions Are in Order! ........ 18 Donor Appreciation ...................... 19 wolftrap.org/opera • wolftrapopera.org/blog 2 GRAND OPERA at the Filene Center CARMEN Georges Bizet Friday, July 25 at 8:15 pm CAST National Symphony Orchestra Carmen ............................Maya Lahyani New Operascape production Don José .................................Kevin Ray Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts Escamillo .................... Norman Garrett In French with supertitles in house Micaëla ............ Melinda Whittington Approximate running time 2 hours 30 minutes Zuniga ................ Ryan Speedo Green Pre-Performance Discussion on the Old Farmhouse Lawn at 7:15 pm Moralès .......................... Joo Won Kang Frasquita ......................Mireille Asselin Mercédès ...................... Virginie Verrez OPERASCAPE: Le Remendado ..........Robert Watson Le Dancaïre ..................................Tobias A LANDSCAPE FOR OPERA Greenhalgh The Washington Chorus This summer’s Carmen marks our fourth outing with the Julian Wachner, Music Director Filene Center production model we call Operascape. Alexandria Choral Society Read on for a bit of history and some context! Children’s Chorus Kevin Carr, Music Director Components of Operascape National Symphony Orchestra: The Video Projections: The biggest PRODUCTION Filene Center is the second largest component of the visual production Conductor ....................Grant Gershon theatrical stage in the country, and comes from a 60-foot-wide projection Director .......................... Tara Faircloth that means that we can share it with screen built for the Filene Center. A Video Projection the amazing NSO. Our singers revel video projections designer (a relatively Design ..........................S. Katy Tucker in a collaboration that’s a high point recent and fascinating career track) Costume Design ........ Rooth Varland of their careers to date, and the works with the director and design Lighting Design .............Mark Stanley audience hears the score played by team to knit together still and video Hair/Makeup the best musicians in the area. images that help tell the story in our Design .................... Elsen Associates large venue. Continued on following page Language Consultant ........................... Full Staging: Cast members Marie-France Lefebvre spend a full-length rehearsal period (about 4 weeks) preparing a completely Special thanks to Carmen staged treatment of the Production Underwriters opera. Daniel and Gayle D’Aniello, and Costumes: A designer creates Performance Sponsors Ed and a new look just for our Andy Smith. Additional support production, and costumes are provided by Virginia M. Friend. built in our shop. 2013 Operascape: La traviata 3 GRAND OPERA at the Filene Center (continued) Continued from previous page SHE AND I Microphones: This may be the deal breaker for some, for the naked Carmen and I have spent quite some unassisted human voice is one time together, on and off, in the last of the salient features of opera. few years. It’s been a roller coaster. Nevertheless, amplification is a Quite appropriate, since she never reality in large outdoor venues, stays in one relationship too long. and our colleagues across the I first sang a few scenes at school, country (Hollywood Bowl, Ravinia, the quintet and the card trio. Then I Tanglewood, Met in the Parks) join performed the final duet in a concert us in accepting the presence of in Israel with a fantastic tenor who microphones as an essential tool for later became known for his wonderful being able to bring opera outdoors. Don José. The seguidilla duet came Maya Lahyani, mezzo-soprano afterward at the Merola program, and and off tables, and lay down; I was later the finale again in concert as tied, grabbed, thrown, shoved down The Birth of Operascape an Adler Fellow at the San Francisco the stairs, and stabbed—all while singing! This summer there will be a This approach was born from Opera. It’s interesting that the most new challenge: performing outdoors! several years of brainstorming famous aria, the “Habanera,” came It’s going to be hot and steamy— and problem-solving in the wake very last, only when I finally prepared quite perfect for this opera. of difficulties with the previous the complete role as a cover at San process of renting large sets for Francisco Opera. Here I was, an Israeli, Wolf Trap was an incredible the Filene Center stage. Many may playing a Spanish Gypsy, in a French experience for me last summer; one fondly remember the Hockney opera, sung in English. Confused? I of my most beautiful, memorable, and Magic Flute and the Sendak Love for was, too! fulfilling summers of music making. Three Oranges, among many others. After only a few days of rehearsals, Carmen is challenging and, like any Sadly, by the early 2000s, the as I was examining the multiple title role, it’s a big responsibility. number of rental productions that bruises on my body, it was clear to However, it’s going to be a joy being could fill our stage; remain in good me that we are a very good match! surrounded by the wonderful Wolf condition, not compromised by So who is she? Trap family, and an honor and great pleasure to share the stage with so decades in a warehouse: and rent, “A Gypsy child who has no law, many of my friends who also happen ship, load in, and run affordably and who must be forever free as to be the most talented group of at the Filene Center had dwindled air…” She is wild, passionate, smart, young singers out there. Add to the away to almost nothing. A new uncompromising, strong, proud, mix a fantastic conductor, a
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