Coming Attractions

A fun and frightening look at the unhinged female characters of opera, afflicted by love. Whether they are betrothed to be married, fiancées in love, jilted lovers, or simply mad and bad, this concert will showcase the power of the female voice, soul, and fierce-a-tude.

Featuring Michelle Koebke, Melanie Krueger, and Heather Molloy, with non-singing pianist Roger Parton.

Our third concert of the season at Il Centro: The Italian Cultural Centre. Thursday 8 August, 7:30 - 9pm. Slocan x Grandview. More details to come.

With devilish delight, this concert will explore the underworld and its influence on opera plots and characters. From Orfeo's quest to retrieve his wife from Hades, to Faust selling his soul for love, this concert will explore all the great music and conflicts created by that pesky hotspot.

This will be our fourth concert of the season at Il Centro: The Italian Cultural Centre, Slocan x Grandview.

Tuesday 10 September, 7:30 - 9pm. Please join us. Wear red.

Join us for a Great Opera Choruses Singalong on Saturday 28 September, from 1 - 2pm, at CBC Studio 700.

Join us for a chance to sing all the great choruses you love, with dozens of your closest friends, four professional singers, and one formidable pianist. We supply the music, online and at the door. You bring yourself.

It's like singing in the shower -- without the water. Free, of course

City Opera is delighted to participate in the annual fundraising gala for our friends at Il Centro:  the Italian Cultural Centre. Please join us in the Grand Ballroom the evening of Friday 4 October 2019, 8 - 10pm.

Slocan x Grandview. Ample free parking, and SkyTrain Renfrew two blocks away. More details to come.

THE BERLIN PROJECT. A unique collage of cabaret, opera and jazz from the Weimar Republic.

It's Berlin. Underground. 1938. The last night of the last cabaret in Germany. Singers and players gather to perform, one final time.

THE BERLIN PROJECT, in a sneak, music-only preview given as part of the DTES Heart of the City Festival. Carnegie Centre, Hastings x Main. Saturday 26 October. 7:30 - 9pm. Free, of course

The MainStage production runs at Performance Works in January 2020. Details to come.

THE BERLIN PROJECT is set during the era of the Weimar Republic (1919 - 1933), and explores the extraordinary music, film, culture and people of the era. In a hybrid and collage of opera-cabaret-jazz, we link the actual music of the period with allegory that speaks to our own.

Please join us for a unique take on a unique time. It was as exciting, transgressive, and memorable an era as the 20th C ever knew.

More details to come. Performance Works on Granville Island. 8pm, 16-17-18 January 2020.