Wolf Trap announces Fleming appointment, summer offerings
Renée Fleming will begin a three-year term as Wolf Trap’s artist development advisor this summer. Photo: Brigitte Lacombe
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts announced plans for the 2025 summer season on Tuesday. Wolf Trap Opera will produce its usual three shows, two in the more intimate setting of the Barns and one in the large outdoor Filene Center. The company’s young artists will star in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro (June 20 to 28) and Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites (July 18 to 26) in the Barns, with a single Filene performance of Bizet’s Carmen on August 15.
Wolf Trap also announced that soprano Renée Fleming will join Wolf Trap Opera as “artist development advisor” for a three-year term, although the precise details of what the appointment will entail were unclear.
Continuing the trend of recent years, a WTO alumna or alumnus returns to the company as artist-in-residence to work with the young singers each summer: this year soprano Tamara Wilson, from the class of 2008, will take on that role.
In addition to the usual summer Broadway fare and movie screenings with live music, the National Symphony Orchestra will perform classical programs of Gershwin, Dukas, and Rimsky-Korsakov, with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet (July 18); and Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Choral Arts Society of Washington (July 25), paired oddly, given the Wolf Trap Opera season, with excerpts from Carmen.
Tickets will go on sale Friday, February 28. wolftrap.org
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