End of the PAULINE opening night performance. View more photos here. (courtesy Michelle Doherty, Sharon Kravitz) All five houses were sold out at the York Theatre, and every night saw a standing ovation. The media rollout included full-page stories in the Vancouver Sun, the Globe & Mail, the Georgia Straight, and many more in print […]
Pauline Johnson: Two Worlds A warrior spirit. A secret heart. Margaret Atwood, libretto • Tobin Stokes, music Norman Armour, stage director The world premiere of PAULINE is in two weeks. “Pauline will be the runaway hit of the spring.” – Max Wyman PAULINE is the story of poet and performer Pauline Johnson, set in 1913 […]
Exciting News About Pauline Our Early Bird ticket sale has been a great success. We have sold hundreds of tickets, and expect to sell out the entire run. Early Bird prices end this Tuesday, 2 April. If you’d like the best seats in the house, at the best price we can offer, this is the […]
Pauline: A New Opera By Margaret Atwood & Tobin Stokes This is the opera you don’t want to miss. A powerful and poignant story, lyric and memorable, bold and vivid. A world premiere. PAULINE is the tale of a remarkable woman, a proto-Canadian who 150 years ago led a life that was unimaginable in its […]
Pauline World Premiere Tickets for the world premiere of Pauline go on sale today, Monday, February 17, at Early Bird prices. Available exclusively through The Cultch. “We want to give our long-time supporters a chance to get the best seats at the best prices,” City Opera president Nora Kelly said. “We believe that Pauline will sell […]
Pauline Tickets Coming Soon “We believe the world premiere run of Pauline will sell out,” said City Opera President Nora Kelly. “There is tremendous interest already, so tickets will go on sale early in the new year. We are scheduling five performances, but if early sales justify we will add a sixth.” Watch for a […]
Why not join us for an enchanted Sunday afternoon at the Kay Meek Theatre? We promise two hours of the most wondrous singing and beautiful music you will ever want to hear. This is music for the whole family. A great introduction to opera for the kids, and a taste of Broadway for everyone. We […]
Welcome to City Opera Vancouver. We are a professional chamber opera company, specializing in new and unusual repertoire. Pauline at Lost Lagoon On August 24 and 25, Pauline Johnson returned to Lost Lagoon for the first time in a century. Hundreds of people joined us, and heard two gorgeous arias. And the CBC aired a […]
The Vancouver Foundation We are delighted to announce a grant of $30,000 from The Vancouver Foundation for Pauline. It is a magnificent vote of confidence from Canada’s largest community foundation, and represents one-tenth of its total cost. We are deeply grateful to the Foundation for its recognition and support, and in particular to Faye Wightman […]
Norman Armour The extraordinary Norman Armour will direct our next new opera, PAULINE, by Margaret Atwood and Tobin Stokes. We announced Norman’s appointment in late February, and the news was picked up by over 600 blogs and websites, featured in the Globe and Mail, Georgia Straight, and generously promoted by the Arts Alliance. Read more […]
Best of the coming season – and year – to all our friends! The year just passed has been exceptional. We gave concerts and recitals, made a film, and concluded the two-year creation of Fallujah. Now, we build to an exciting new project… PAULINE: a chamber opera It is a deeply moving story, set at […]
City Opera Vancouver Awarded $100,000 The Annenberg Foundation of Los Angeles has given City Opera $100,000 to make a film documentary about our new chamber opera, FALLUJAH. This gift is in addition to the $250,000 creation grant from the Foundation that we announced in February of 2011. It remains the largest opera commissioning grant in […]
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