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RAMSTEIN, GERMANY (November 8, 2006) \u2013 Eighteen-year-old Virginia Wootten says she has had nights performing at the opera that went less than smoothly.
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\n\u201cI have had nights where I thought things couldn\u2019t get worse,\u201d says Wootten, the daughter of ordained Evangelical Covenant Church minister and U.S. Army Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Doug Wootten, who is stationed in Ramstein. A recent performance of Verdi\u2019s opera \u201cOtello\u201d was a case in point. \u201cOtello was sick, a supporting role was sick, and the rotating stage was going too fast to exit,\u201d she recalls.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Wootten became a professional opera singer when she was 17 and signed a contract to perform in the chorus for the opera \u201cThe Bartered Bride\u201d in Kaiserslautern, Germany. She has since performed in \u201cOtello,\u201d based on Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cOthello,\u201d and is starting \u201cLes Contes d\u2019Hoffmann.\u201d<\/p>\n

Opera, Wootten says, is not nearly as stuffy as some might think. \u201cIn Germany, opera is not considered formal,\u201d she explains. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to get all dressed up to go to the opera. Some people come in jeans just like at the movie theater.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, opera is a far cry from the country music Wootten thought she would like to sing when she attended college. Her teacher told her, \u201cYou know, your voice is built for classical music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wootten has been singing since she was age five and has had special training since she was 13 and living in New Mexico at the White Sands Missile Range. She is now picking up a lot of professional experience, even if it doesn\u2019t come with a lot of pay.<\/p>\n

She is paid eight euros (about $10) per rehearsal, which can last up to four hours. She gets roughly 20 euros for each performance.<\/p>\n

Performing opera also becomes a means of learning new languages. \u201cOtello\u201d is sung in German and \u201cLes Contes d\u2019Hoffmann\u201d is in French. \u201cI personally pick up languages fairly quickly anyway, but there is no special technique for learning something in another language,\u201d Wootten says. \u201cRepetition is the key to success. I listen to others around me. Especially for the German, it is good to hear the native speaker sing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wootten says she hopes to build a career singing in the opera. Otherwise, she plans to teach music.<\/p>\n

As much as she enjoys opera, her tastes run the gamut from country superstars Shania Twain and Rascal Flatts to Christian bands Relient-K and the Newsboys. Not stuffy at all.<\/p>\n

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