your friends who have never quite understood why you love opera so much those you love who have never met Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and more those who just want to spend an evening warmed and inspired by… The greatest Italian music of all time. City Opera presents a very special event in partnership […]
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 […]
In September we audition for our next mainstage, The Lost Operas of Mozart. We also hear singers who wish to be considered for the many concerts we perform throughout the year. Auditions and callbacks will be held at Tom Lee Music Hall, Third Floor, 929 Granville Street, Vancouver: AUDITION: SATURDAY 19 September 2015, 10am to […]
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 […]
THE LOST OPERAS OF MOZART / 2016 Audition details will be posted as soon as finalized. Singers will be asked to prepare two works of contrasting character, both by Mozart and one each in Italian and German. City Opera provides at no cost to singers a highly-qualified pianist; however, singers may engage another pianist at […]
‘All Yesterday’, sung by tenor Adam Fisher, with pianist David Boothroyd, and filmed by videographer Sharon Kravitz in September 2014. Music by Tobin Stokes, libretto by Margaret Atwood.
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 […]
In the best possible way Bach is inescapable, and so we turn to him again and again and again. Recently, the violinist Joshua Bell and the pianist Igor Levit have done so on separate Sony releases, and it is a joy to hear these great – but very different – artists give their voices within his.
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 […]
City Opera Vancouver is grateful and honoured to work, create and perform on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Xwməθkwəyə̓ m (Musqueam), Sḵwxw̱ ú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl ̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
