Jul 28, 2026 · 52 min · 11 segments
In this installment, your delighted host is joined by Lee Anne Myslewski, Vice President of Opera and Classical Programming at Wolf Trap Opera for a chat about auditions, young artist programs, and…
What's my function? Um, so I actually started here as an intern when I was in graduate school.
I got an internship here assisting a director, Leon Major, when they were doing, uh, their first world premiere, uh, a piece called Volpone, which was written by John Musto and Mark Campbell.
And then I came back on staff in 2006 at the, the bottom of the rung, and I've stuck around long enough that they keep, uh, they keep-
... giving me different titles, so now I'm the vice president of opera and classical programming here.
So that means that I, aside from the opera, we have a chamber music series, and we work with the National Symphony on their summer residency, which is really large this year.
... and then most of what I do is the opera company, so I, we have an application process that just opened up for next summer.
We hear somewhere around, ooh, 4 or 500 folks in live audition all around the country.
We hear people in LA, Chicago, Cincinnati, Houston, um, New York, Philadelphia.
This year we're going to Minnesota for the first time, and then from that we'll pick roughly 35 to 40 people to come to be a part of the season.
What's my function? Um, so I actually started here as an intern when I was in graduate school.
I got an internship here assisting a director, Leon Major, when they were doing, uh, their first world premiere, uh, a piece called Volpone, which was written by John Musto and Mark Campbell.
And then I came back on staff in 2006 at the, the bottom of the rung, and I've stuck around long enough that they keep, uh, they keep-
... giving me different titles, so now I'm the vice president of opera and classical programming here.
So that means that I, aside from the opera, we have a chamber music series, and we work with the National Symphony on their summer residency, which is really large this year.
... and then most of what I do is the opera company, so I, we have an application process that just opened up for next summer.
We hear somewhere around, ooh, 4 or 500 folks in live audition all around the country.
We hear people in LA, Chicago, Cincinnati, Houston, um, New York, Philadelphia.
This year we're going to Minnesota for the first time, and then from that we'll pick roughly 35 to 40 people to come to be a part of the season.
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