The NIGREDO HOTEL is a choice destination for music lovers and weary travelers — and it always attracts a unique and fascinating clientele. For example, tomorrow through Saturday, we expect to welcome a brilliant but troubled brain surgeon who has just crashed his car. He will find more than he bargained for when he checks […]
Nigredo Hotel is a bizarre black comedy, an operatic thriller, and a project unlike any we have done before. It stars baritone Tyler Duncan and soprano Sarah Vardy, and is directed by Alan Corbishley. The Hotel is startling, lyric, jazz-inflected and improvisational — with a four-player combo onstage. It has become a modern Canadian masterwork. […]
Nigredo Hotel Now Open For You Just for you, an Early Bird offer: the hottest show of the fall season. You may now purchase tickets online at The Cultch website, or in person at Victoria x Venables. 604.251.1363. $60.25, $45.25, and $22.25, including service charges. In ten days they go on sale to the general public. […]
Nigredo Hotel… stars baritone Tyler Duncan and soprano Sarah Vardy (pictured), with stage direction by Alan Corbishley, lighting and sets by John Webber, costumes by Barbara Clayden – and inspiration from Carl Jung. With music by Nic Gotham, and libretto by Ann-Marie MacDonald, it is the story of an encounter between a beautiful but crazed […]
Introducing Jeremy Stewart We welcome Jeremy Stewart as our new General Manager. Jeremy’s management and fundraising experience includes work with Theatre North West, and service as General Manager of the Prince George Symphony Orchestra. In 2013 he founded Casse-Tête, an annual festival of experimental music held in Prince George, for which he received the inaugural […]
The Year that was Missing After four years’ work, in November we gave the world premiere of Missing — and then another eleven performances in Vancouver and Victoria. With libretto by Marie Clements, music by Brian Current, Gitxsan materials by Vincent Gogag, this project may have been the most difficult, necessary, and wondrous work we […]
Missing: A World Premiere Chamber Opera Missing may be the most important work we have ever done. It is timely and true, difficult and necessary. Animated by the magical realism of librettist Marie Clements, the powerful and moving music of Brian Current, and directed by the masterful Peter Hinton, it is like nothing we have done […]
Tickets for Missing world premiere now on sale It is 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 gami), directed by Peter Hinton, and produced by Janet Lea and Nora Kelly, this may be the most important work […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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