Colorful costumes, gorgeous singing, dance, laughs aplenty – from the very young to the simply young at heart, Dolce & Belcanto have something magical for all!
Jocelyn Morlock’s wistful meditation, drawing on passages by Milan Kundera and J.S. Bach, leads us into radiant acceptance – not only of the past, but of those things now that will one day be past.
Composer Alice Ping Yee Ho and writer Madeleine Thien are among Canada’s most acclaimed creators, working powerfully across a wide landscape of genres. Their opera, “Chinatown” – premiering with City Opera Vancouver in September of 2022, with vivid translations by Paul Yee – conjures Vancouver’s Keefer Street in another era, when a generation of new […]
Cris Derksen’s fusion of traditional and electronic sound takes us (and cello) to new dimensions in a musical postcard of beats and loops – sent priority post from one of Canada’s most gifted musicians!
Originally scored for harpsichord and baroque flute, Linda Catlin Smith’s Grey Broken invites us to traverse intimate, crystalline interiors, where what is now and what is past, what is seen and what is remembered, coalesce.
Another consummate artist gone too soon, Canadian legend Brent Carver – supported by Art of Time Ensemble in Dan Parr’s subtle, rustling setting – brings wistful grace to a Charles Aznavour classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOlxuXHWfHw Produced for the 2009 Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, David New’s hushed portrait of iconic Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer, who passed away in August, is a view into the soundscapes that we all inhabit: spaces both vast and small, in which a single decision – to simply listen – opens worlds.
City Opera Vancouver is grateful and honoured to work, create and perform on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Xwməθkwəyə̓ m (Musqueam), Sḵwxw̱ ú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl ̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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