In Five Months, We Present “Missing” A story everyone knows, about a woman no one remembers. With libretto by Marie Clements, music by Brian Current, Gitxsan materials by Vincent Gogag (Gawa gani), and directed by Peter Hinton, this may be the most important work we have ever done. Missing is a co-production with Pacific Opera […]
CITY OPERA VANCOUVER and Il Centro: The Italian Cultural Centre present HELLO & GOODBYE • operatically speaking • with soprano Shadan Saul • mezzo Charlotte Beglinger tenor Sunny Shams • baritone Andrew Greenwood pianist David Boothroyd • narrator Tom Durrie Lovers say hello and, all too often, goodbye. Villains say goodbye and, all too often, hello. […]
2017 Will Be A Wonderful Year For Chamber Opera In Vancouver Hello & Goodbye / Tuesday 25 April Our next event at Il Centro runs Tuesday 25 April – 6pm dinner, 7pm concert – in the Grand Ballroom. $20 for the concert only. $20 more for a grand buffet dinner. Tickets at the door, or purchase yours online. Lovers say […]
Missing… Found At DTES Carnegie On Wednesday 1 March 2017, you are invited to attend another Carnegie premiere. Please join us for a piano-vocal presentation of our new chamber opera, Missing – and stay to tell us what you think, and how you feel. In the creation of every new piece, it is essential we […]
2016 was a wonderful year for chamber opera in Vancouver… and Fallujah was produced in the United States. Twice. City Opera in 2016… produced our ‘premiere’ and first comedy, The Lost Operas of Mozart, over three nights at Christ Church Cathedral in October achieved the $25,000 Mozart matching grant challenge from the Edwina and Paul […]
And you’re invited. THE LOST OPERAS OF MOZART Christ Church Cathedral, Burrard x Georgia The trouble starts at eight… Have a peek at our rehearsal… (more pics on our Facebook page) We have re-constructed and re-imagined three lost operas of Mozart. These are wonderful works he never finished. Two are Italian comedies, and the third […]
The Lost Operas of Mozart: A Night of Firsts the Canadian premiere of three lost operas by Mozart wonderful music you have never heard – until now our first production at Christ Church Cathedral City Opera’s first comedy the first appearance by Bramwell Tovey IN an opera our first Mozart THE LOST OPERAS OF MOZARTcomedy […]
$25,000 challenge grant received from Heller Memorial Fund “We just received our first-ever challenge grant,” City Opera President Janet Lea announced today. “This breakthrough results from The Edwina and Paul Heller Memorial Fund offering to match any new gift for our production of The Lost Operas of Mozart — up to a total of $25,000. […]
We have an exceptional concert for you: The Glory of Italian Opera, this Wednesday evening. From the nation and the culture that invented opera, City Opera Vancouver has drawn a superb concert of Rossini, Donizetti, Puccini, Verdi, Ponchielli, Cilea, Leoncavallo and more. It features some of our finest artists, at an event centuries in the […]
Fallujah a triumph in Los Angeles. Moves to New York in November Juno-award winning composer Brian Current to write music for Missing Women City Opera and Pacific Opera Victoria to co-pro Missing Women 6 nights in Vancouver, followed by 5 nights in Victoria Cathleen Gingrich appointed first City Opera General Manager FALLUJAH: New York premiere […]
We are thrilled that Canadian composer Brian Current will contribute his gifts to Missing Women. Brian is an exceptional talent, and a marvelous story-teller in music. He was chosen by a Jury using City Opera’s anonymized process. We thank the Jury for its immense contribution to Missing Women, and to the story that librettist (and jury member) Marie Clements […]
Mozart is Lost and Found at Carnegie on March 19 Please join us for a sneak preview of Act One, THE LOST OPERAS OF MOZART. This Saturday, 4 – 5pm at the Carnegie Centre. Free, of course. We will be testing our brilliant new script by Maria Reva (above), and giving music from Lo Sposo Deluso […]
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