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VIVA VERDI!

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In collaboration with City Opera Vancouver and the Italian Cultural Institute, IL CENTRO Italian Cultural Centre presents an evening of music and stories from the life of Italy’s most beloved composer: Giuseppe Verdi.

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Norman Armour to direct Pauline

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PuSh Festival co-founder Norman Armour has been tapped to direct Pauline, the first opera to feature a libretto by Canadian literary star Margaret Atwood, City Opera Vancouver president Nora Kelly announced today.

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Fallujah receives major media attention with AP story and video

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Fallujah describes two lives – one American, one Iraqi – that intersect with dread consequence at the Battle of Fallujah in 2004. It examines the agonies of guilt and conscience and pride when a warrior returns home. On 2 July 2012, the Associated Press published worldwide a major feature story on the making and meaning of Fallujah. On the same day, they released an original AP film to their 600 television outlets worldwide.

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City Opera Vancouver receives $250,000 commissioning grant for new chamber opera

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City Opera Vancouver’s Board of Directors is delighted to announce the company has been awarded a commissioning grant of $250,000 US from the Annenberg Foundation, in connection with the philanthropic multimedia organization Explore. This extraordinary sum is believed to be the largest single commissioning grant in Canadian history. The working title: FALLUJAH.

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City Opera Production Fund now created…

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The City Opera art auction was a big success. The auction events, which took place in October and December, comprised fifty-two lots generously donated to COV.  Forty-one of these had sold as of December 16th, at prices both above and below the pre-auction estimates. The proceeds of sale were over $43,000, the entire sum going […]

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Our friends: VISI

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Another one of our great friends is Rena Sharon at the Vancouver International Song Institute. We invite you to visit VISI online at www.songinstitute.ca. VISI is a UBC-based summer programme that brings together collaborative teaching and learning about song and art song. Performers explore expressive boundaries, scholars consider new research interactions, poets and composers discuss […]

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COV Partners with Heffel Fine Art Auction House to “Help Art Make Music”

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Building our production fund [singlepic=8,150,200,right]You can support City Opera and acquire a coveted work of art. Bid from home — or visit the gallery and bid in person. Second Auction: December 2 – 16. Works in various media. Works in this benefit auction include paintings, prints, photographs, and a Salish feast bowl. Style and subject […]

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COV at Minoru Chapel in Richmond

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Minoru Chapel, behind the Gateway Theatre in Richmond, was the location of our most recent recital. Wednesday 3 November, 7:30 to 9:00pm was the time and date. A packed house of 100 heard soprano Mariana Valdés, tenor Nicolas Rhind, pianist Dr Greg Caisley and narrator Tom Durrie in a wonderful evening of music from Puccini, […]

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COV at the Italian Cultural Centre

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On 20 June, we were invited to appear in the opening ceremonies for Italian Week, at the Italian Cultural Centre. Soprano Mariana Valdés, tenor Andrzej Jeziorski, and City Opera staff pianist Greg Caisley were joined by producer-narrator Tom Durrie in a programme of Verdi, Rossini, Puccini, Donizetti, Cilea, di Capua, and De Curtis. Their work […]

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Italian Day

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And on Sunday 6 June 2010, at the Mainstage on Commercial Drive at Second, we were pleased to participate in a long-overdue revival of Italian Day on The Drive. Produced by Tom Durrie, we presented soprano Mariana Valdés and tenor Nicolas Rhind, joined by City Opera staff pianist Greg Caisley, in a hour-long programme of […]

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Second Homeground Festival

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On Friday 19 February 2010, beginning at 4:15pm, City Opera participated in the second Homeground Festival at Oppenheimer Park in the DTES. City Opera was proud to present soprano Caroline Jang, and pianist Michael Onwood, and to once again bring our music to the neighbourhood. An audience of 70 joined us for light classical and […]

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COV comes to the West End with a recital at Roedde House

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On Saturday 3 October 2009, City Opera gave its first recital in the West End, at historic Roedde House. Soprano Melanie Krueger and pianist Greg Caisley were featured in music that could have been — and very likely was — heard in this mansion 100 years ago. This beautiful Victorian was full, and rang to […]

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