A return to grand style for Wolf Trap Opera with 'Ghosts of Versailles'

No one believes me, but many years ago, the Wolf Trap Opera used to mount fully staged operas like Ferruccio Busoni's "Doktor Faustus," Francesco Cavalli's "L'Egisto" and Prokofiev's "War and Peace." Not at the Barns, in the cavernous Filene Center. Founder and patroness Kay Shouse believed that high culture should not be confined to the colder months at the Kennedy Center, and though the houses weren't full, they had healthy, respectable attendance.