Mason Community Arts Academy is proud to announce that Teaching Artist James Myers has been cast in the professional mens chorus in the upcoming production of Verdi’s Rigoletto with the Wolf Trap Opera Friday August 3rd at 8:15 pm.
James has sung with Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center in their production of Wagner’s Gotterdammerung, as well as performing the role of Edward Rutledge in McLean Community Players’ production of the musical, 1776. He has also performed with the Middle Saxony Theatre in their productions of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Kurt Weill’s Street Scene.
When asked about the upcoming performance, he said “I’m most excited to sing in Rigoletto because it is one of my favorite operas and it features numerous songs that even people who have never been to an opera will easily recognize. I’m also thrilled because Wolf Trap Opera is such an amazing organization that puts on great productions.”
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Kaylor met Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith (composer and librettist) when he worked with them on a previous musical they created. This production is the fourth of five musicals in a commissioning project called “Bold New Works for Intimate Stages” produced at Creative Cauldron. “Being involved in the creation of a new musical is very exciting for me” says Kaylor. “I have the opportunity to communicate and support the writers ideas through percussion. Figuring out how to do this effectively involves a great amount of thought and collaboration between different artists, and I really enjoy that process.”