Cora appeared both as a girl in the children’s chorus, and as a boy busker in the video segments interspersed into the production (her face filling the screen at one point.)
Tosca at Wolf Trap
Music
Wolf Trap Opera
June 16th, Rossini’s La Cerentola (Cinderella), the first of this year’s three productions of Wolf Trap Summer Opera. (Preceded by dinner at Anita’s New Mexican Restaurant, as always.)
July 15th: off to the opera again. This time Elspeth drove Cora and me to Anita’s Restaurant, where we met Tim for dinner, then got to The Barns at Wolf Trap in time for the 7pm dress rehearsal.
Rhys’s piano recital
Rhys’s third annual piano recital, Newark, Delaware.
Spring Choral Concert
University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia
The Fredericksburg Singers is a college/community group I’ve been thrilled to be a part of. In this concert, before the intermission, the chamber choir and the UMW chorus each performed some of their own pieces. After the intermission, at recording minute 33, the Fred Singers were added to those two groups to perform first the Aaron Copeland song Stamp your Foot, then the Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzen, then the finale from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Gondoliers. Our director is Dr Chris Ryder, and our accompanists (piano for four hands) were Dr Melissa Wells and Dr Robert Wells.
Messiah
Performed December 7th, 2025, 3pm and 7pm, at Fredericksburg Baptist Church
Cora in Carmen
Summer Opera at Wolf Trap
Cora’s Solo
At Lessons and Carols, St Paul’s Episcopal, Haymarket, Virginia
Messiah
The 53rd(?) annual performance by Fredericksburg Community Chorus, directed by Chris Ryder (photographed above in dress rehearsal). The concerts were 3pm and 7pm, with 13-piece paid orchestra with harpsichord and organ, and about 80 singers including 12 soloists. The choruses were And the Glory, Purify, Oh Thou that Tellest, Unto Us, Glory to God, Surely, Stripes, Sheep, and Hallelujah.
UMW Spring Choral Concert
Chris Ryder directs all three University of Mary Washington choirs combining for the spring concert. This was my second time singing with the college/community group, Fredericksburg Singers. I was particularly pleased that it included Schubert’s Mass in G. Photo clipped from the concert video. About 33:50 is the start of the first piece I’m in, but the Mass in G starts at about 43:05.
Rhys, Recitalist
