WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA
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Mission Statement
Washington National Opera’s mission is to achieve the highest artistic standards, and to inspire, connect, and enrich our community, to shape the future of opera, and to illuminate the American and human experience. The WNO tells timeless stories with programming that excites, entertains, engages, and educates. We are committed to diversity and balance – presenting classic, contemporary, and American works – to broad local, national, and international audiences.
About This Cause
Recent seasons have continued the traditions set by the founders of WNO, offering performances by the greatest talents the opera world has to offer, in works beloved and unfamiliar. WNO's commitment to nurturing the future of the art form manifests itself in the celebrated Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program and the annual Opera in the Outfield® event, in which a production is simulcast for free to Nationals Park. These programs, along with the considerable work and outreach of the Education Department continue to broaden the public's awareness and understanding of opera, and cultivate the next generation of opera stars and supporters of the arts. In 2003 WNO launched Generation O, rebranded as BravO in 2014, a program for patrons age 18 to 40, which makes WNO accessible to young opera lovers and new opera listeners through specially-priced tickets, special events, and educational opportunities. And in 2012 WNO began the American Opera Initiative, a comprehensive new commissioning program that brings contemporary American stories to the stage while fostering and developing the talents of new American composers and librettists. Washington National Opera officially affiliated with the Kennedy Center in 2011. In 2012, Francesca Zambello was appointed as Artistic Director of the opera. As an internationally recognized director of opera and theater, she had directed productions with Washington National Opera since 2001 and continues to today. The opera's vision under Zambello is to bring stories to the stage that are classic and contemporary as well as those that illuminate the American experience. With Zambello at the helm, the opera has made a tradition of the annual holiday opera, showcasing productions of Hansel and Gretel, The Little Prince, and the world premiere of the children's opera, The Lion, the Unicorn and Me. In 2016, as a perfect culmination to the 60th anniversary season, Zambello brought Washington National Opera to the international stage when she led the company to present three full cycles of Wagner's Ring. Timothy O'Leary began his tenure as General Director of Washington National Opera in July 2018. As General Director, O'Leary works closely with WNO's Board of Directors and Artistic Director Francesca Zambello to provide strategic and operational oversight of the entire company. In collaboration with Zambello, he partners with other members of the Kennedy Center's senior leadership team to expand how Washington National Opera and the Center serve audiences, the Washington, D.C. community, and the international arts community. Under this combined arts leadership, Washington National Opera continually strives to reach the highest artistic standards in its performances and programs in the nation's capital.