Wolf Trap’s nights of song, dance and theater alfresco.
Robert Llewellyn
By Ann Mah
Park Performances
Bob Hope, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Miles Davis, Tony Bennett, Bob Dylan, Ella Fitzgerald, Celine Dion, B.B. King, Whitney Houston, Dizzy Gillespie, Peter, Paul and Mary—they’ve all performed at a surprising venue. It’s not New York’s Madison Square Garden or the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. It’s Wolf Trap’s 7,000-seat Filene Center near Vienna, Virginia. Wolves once ran wild across the hills and woods of the 130-acre swath of land, now the nation’s only national park for the performing arts. Philanthropist Catherine Filene Shouse (1896-1994), an avid...
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