Francesca Zambello: Die Feen

 Francesca Zambello,  Artistic Director of the Washington National Opera and 2014 Wagner  Award recipient, will preview her 2020 production of Wagner’s first  completed opera Die Feen (The Fairies) at the Glimmerglass Festival. Soprano Alexandra Shiner and tenor Ian Koziara,  who will play Ada and Arindal at Glimmerglass, will perform excerpts  from the opera. Shiner, who sang Ariadne in Wolf Trap Opera’s production  of Ariadne auf Naxos this summer, is an alumna of WNO’s  Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program. Koziara, who sang The Tenor and  Bacchus at Wolf Trap, is a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann  Young Artist Development Program. They will be accompanied by  Domingo-Cafritz Program Director Rob Ainsley.