City Opera special announcement
Monday, June 5th, 2023City Opera Appoints New Artistic Director Vancouver, BC – The Board of Directors of City Opera Vancouver (City Opera) is thrilled to announce the appointment of Canadian conductor Gordon Gerrard as the organization’s next Artistic Director. The appointment is the culmination of extensive community consultation and a six-month search, following the retirement of City Opera’s […]
City Opera News / April 2023
Wednesday, April 5th, 2023Remembering Jocelyn Morlock City Opera, along with Vancouver’s music community, mourns the passing of an incredibly bright light, an enormous talent, and a friend. Jocelyn Morlock’s immense musical gifts, her bizarre and quirky humour, her kindness, and care, will leave a huge gap in our cultural world. She left a glorious portfolio, human and musical. […]
City Opera News | March 2023
Monday, March 6th, 2023Introducing Alan Corbishley: City Opera’s Interim Artistic Director Many of you will be well-acquainted with Alan, who has worked closely with City Opera since 2016. Alan is an award-winning arts producer and versatile opera director whose stage works have been described as “poetry on stage.” Alan directed and conceived City Opera’s production The Lost Operas […]
City Opera News for 23 January, 2023
Sunday, January 22nd, 2023City Opera’s Longtime Artistic Director To Retire Vancouver, BC – The Board of Directors of City Opera Vancouver (City Opera) today announced that Founding Artistic Director Dr. Charles Barber will be retiring from his position, effective March 1, 2023. His departure follows the successful premiere of City Opera’s fifth commission, Chinatown, which chronicles the rich […]
Isaiah Bell / THE BOOK OF MY SHAMES
Monday, October 31st, 2022In 2010, City Opera gave the young tenor Isaiah Bell his professional debut as Madwoman in Britten’s ‘Curlew River’. Ten years later, Isaiah gave the world premiere of a brand-new take on Poulenc’s ‘The Human Voice’, created on video during COVID. In May 2023, we present the Vancouver premiere of his own ‘The Book of […]
Joni Mitchell: BOTH SIDES NOW, at 78
Monday, October 31st, 2022Joni Mitchell, just because. Here she was on 24 July, at the Newport Folk Festival, coming back.