$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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dear Friends: Chamber opera is alive and well in Vancouver. 2015 included City Opera’s first-ever tour – taking Pauline to Quebec – and a special grant of $127,000 for Missing Women from The Vancouver Foundation. Thanks to the BC Arts Council, we were able to complete our first Strategic Plan, 2015 – 2020. Thanks to the City […]
The Vancouver Foundation awardsCity Opera $127,000 “We are proud and grateful,” said City Opera Vancouver President Janet Lea, “to advise that the Vancouver Foundation has made a grant of $127,000 in support of our next commission, MISSING WOMEN. “This new chamber opera will tell a story everyone knows, from the vantage of a woman […]
The Greatest Italian Music Ever Written / 28 October …will be in the air at Il Centro on Wednesday October 28. 7:30pm. View the Il Centro event notice With soprano Shadan Saul, mezzo Barbara Towell, tenor Sunny Shams, baritone Andrew Greenwood, pianist Sean Bayntun, and host Tom Durrie. All seats $20 at the door, or […]
Pauline Goes To Quebec City / October 2015 “Pauline, by Margaret Atwood and Tobin Stokes, will be given in concert performance for an international audience at Quebec City on Friday 16 October 2015,” City Opera President Janet Lea announced today. This Festival is one of the largest in the world. “At the invitation of Festival […]
City Opera Vancouver seeks a General Manager CITY OPERA VANCOUVER: HIRING NOTICE JOB OPENING: General Manager COMPETITION PERIOD: 15 February to 31 March 2016 THE COMPANY: City Opera Vancouver is a professional chamber opera company. We specialize in new and unusual repertoire, with an emphasis on Canadian themes and artists. We commission and produce mainstage […]
Lost & Found: Mozart! In October 2016 we present our next mainstage production: The Lost Operas Of Mozart. In his early twenties, Mozart started three operas he never completed. Two are Italian comedies, and the third a German singspiel. Each is a tantalizing hint of what might have been. Each is the voice of Mozart […]
2014 was a wonderful year. Thanks to you we gave the world premiere of PAULINE, the new opera by Margaret Atwood and Tobin Stokes. It sold out all five nights at the York Theatre, and drew international attention. We gave THE MOZART MIRACLE at the Carnegie Centre — our 25th event in the Downtown Eastside […]
CITY OPERA VANCOUVER and Il Centro Italian Cultural Centre present P U C C I N I a P I A C E R E • as you like it • with soprano Chloé Hurst • soprano Sarah Vardy tenor Sunny Shams • baritone Willy Miles-Grenzberg pianist Richard Epp • narrator Tom Durrie […]
Welcome to our Fall Season After the extraordinary success of PAULINE — all five performances sold out — we are now in pre-production for our next mainstage, THE LOST OPERAS OF MOZART. Meantime we offer concerts, recitals, and special events. They widen our audience, build our brand, and welcome more people to the world of […]
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