Does anyone have perru-queries? If so, City Opera has answers. One of the wittiest, most sly and subtle comic cantatas ever written, Perruqueries [questions about wigs] was published at City Opera Online today. Click here to watch it now. With libretto by Bill Richardson, and music by Jocelyn Morlock, Perruqueries is a wickedly funny take […]
The Human Voice / Online Opera No. 1… starring tenor Isaiah Bell, with pianist Roger Parton, has attracted wonderful reviews. In the Spring 2021 edition of Opera Canada, critic Robert Jordan writes: “With a remarkably fine tenor, Isaiah Bell conveys his character’s vain attempts to communicate an utter devastation that his male lover is ending their […]
MEUS EX MACHINA THE HUMAN VOICE. NOW COMPLETE, ONLINE, AND FREE A dazzling and contemporary adaptation of Poulenc’s masterpiece, La Voix Humaine. The agony of failed love. Failed technology. A story of ourselves. This is the first new production at City Opera Online. Starring tenor Isaiah Bell, with pianist Roger Parton, The Human Voice presents […]
A vivid new production of a masterpiece. “The Human Voice” released at City Opera Online The agony of failed love. The coldness of the machine. The voice of humanity. City Opera Vancouver’s first online opera will be released on Monday 11 January 2021, beginning at noon. It is free to all, on our YouTube channel. […]
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