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Wolf Trap
Wolf Trap is a short name that the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts is known by in the Washington, D.C. area. It is a performing arts center located in a setting of rolling hills and woods. It covers 130 acres (0.53 km²) of national park land in Vienna, Virginia. The National Park Service and the non-profit Wolf Trap Foundation, formed a unique partnership and collaboration that offers both natural and cultural resources for the Performing Arts.

Wolf Trap debuted with the Face of America program in 2000, which was created “to celebrate the country’s national parks and to honor the relationship between nature and the creative process." Currently, the Wolf Trap Foundation organizes and runs several distinct elements as part of the whole. These are as follows:

Filene Center is the major indoor/outdoor performance venue with a seating capacity for 7,000 people. Performances are given nightly from May to early September and cover a wide range of musical styles from country music to opera. In the summer of 1971, sixty young musical performers were chosen for training in music, dance and acting, to culminate in a production in the newly conceived Filene Center.

The inaugural season opening was delayed one month due to a fire that destroyed most of the nearly built center. But when finally completed, the theatre, constructed of Oregon redcedar, was a ten-story-high facility equipped with a computerized lighting system and sophisticated sound equipment. As Wolf Trap was preparing for its 12th season, tragedy struck once again.

On April 4, 1982, a fire of undetermined origin, intensified by high gusting winds, destroyed the Filene Center. Almost immediately the Wolf Trap Foundation, the park's non-profit partner, announced that a 1982 season would still take place in a huge tent erected in the meadow. The second Filene Center is made of douglas-fir with a yellow pine ceiling. It includes a smoke/fire detection and suppression system, as well as fire retardant wood. The new amphitheater was also built with state-of-the-art sound and lighting equipment.

The Barns at Wolf Trap is an indoor venue that is a casual performance space which operates year-round and offers a very wide variety of entertainment possibilies. It seats 382.

Wolf Trap Opera Company is a young company that was established in 1971. It has developed into a quality resident ensemble program for young opera singers. Its mission is to discover and encourage emerging talent in the opera field and it serves young singers of achievement and potential by giving them training and performance experience with fully-staged performances each summer at the Filene Center and The Barns.

Donation of the land
According to the earliest records of Fairfax County, it is revealed that wolves ran wild in the area we know today as Wolf Trap and that it was a popular area to trap wolves for bounty.

As the years went by and more people populated the land, wolves became less prevalent. In August, 1739, J.M. Warner was surveying land and "Wolf Trap Creek," a branch of Difficult Run, appeared on his survey.

The name Wolf Trap, therefore, has been a part of Virginia’s history for nearly 260 years. In 1930, Catherine Filene Shouse purchased approximately 53 acres (21 ha) of this land to begin with and chose to retain this historical name. By 1956, her parcels of this land totaled 168 acres (68 ha). She bought the land primarily to give her children a chance on weekends to escape the hectic pace of Georgetown, Washington DC. They grew corn, wheat, alfalfa, and oats to provide food for their chickens, ducks, turkeys, and milk cows.

They also raised horses and built a stable and hay barn to accommodate them. Eventually, they operated a kennel that produced champion boxers, miniature pinchers, and Weimaraner dogs. Wanting to share nature with her friends, she often held informal lawn suppers and carnivals on the farm.

The First performance seasons
The earliest performances at the Filene Center, Robert Lewis, founder of The Actors Studio and acclaimed Broadway director, was chosen to conduct the training program and direct the production called Musical Theatre Cavalcade.

With a mulimedia set by Leo Kerz, choreograhy by Gemeze de Lappe, and musical direction by Johnny Green, the Cavalcade was a history of musical theater from The Beggar's Opera to Hair. Then President and Mrs. Nixon attended the opening night performance and afterwards invited the entire cast to the White House for a reception.

The first dozen seasons saw many performances and events of historical significance. In 1976, the Scottish Military Tattoo, a Bicentennial gift from Britain, performed at the Filene Center for capacity audiences including Britain's Prince Philip.

The following year, the People's Republic of China's performing arts ensemble entertained Wolf Trap's audience with acrobatic troupes and dancers in one of the first cultural exchanges between China and the United States.

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