Coming Attractions

2nd April 2020

Please mark your calendar for Thursday 2 April, 6:30 - 9pm, at John Fluevog Shoes. 65 Water Street, in Gastown.

It will be a delightful evening of song, respectable drink, and glorious music -- plus shoes.

Details to come.

25th April 2020

At City Opera, we choose our composers via Jury, and an anonymized competition. Akin to screen auditions at a Symphony, we invite well-qualified Canadian composers to set an identical text from our new libretto. We avoid hypothesis and mere hopefulness. In this way, we hear how the composer would set the actual libretto -- two years before opening night. Our system reduces risk.

We also use this system to reduce bias. The Jury does not know the name, age, gender, or ethnicity of the composer. Only the sound.

On Saturday 25 April, from 2 - 3pm at the Canadian Music Centre, 837 Davie Street, four different settings will be sung of an excerpt from the CHINATOWN libretto of Madeleine Thien. Care to join us? It's free, of course.

Please RSVP: info@cityoperavancouver.com

14th June 2020

Please join City Opera at Italian Day on The Drive. Sunday 14 June. This will be our 11th annual appearance, bringing great Italian music to the 100,000 citizens who attend every year.

More details to come.

1st October 2020

Please join us at 10:30am, Thursday 1 October, at the wonderful ACT MainStage in Maple Ridge.

We are offering a delightful reprise of our terrific success last year when we presented the musical version of an imaginary football match, Italy vs France. It drew an enormous crowd, much laughter, many flags, and beautiful voices. Details to come.

14th September 2021 — 18th September 2021

now in development, with extraordinary support from The Vancouver Foundation.

CHINATOWN runs 14 - 18 September 2021, at the Vancouver Playhouse. More details coming soon. This is City Opera's fifth commission in nine years.