In this issue: Three great women join City Opera Our next three productions Two new fundraisers One new concert Perru-Queries? And, we thank Ron and Janet Stern If owning Canadian art interests you… How about the online auction now underway at Heffel’s Fine Art Auction House, and running until 28 March? The following five works […]
Chinatown: A New Chamber Opera Our next commission, scheduled for world premiere in late 2021, is underway. It tells the story of the people and culture of one of our most vital neighbourhoods. Chinatown will be written by Madeleine Thien, a native daughter of Vancouver and author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016). […]
The NIGREDO HOTEL is a choice destination for music lovers and weary travelers — and it always attracts a unique and fascinating clientele. For example, tomorrow through Saturday, we expect to welcome a brilliant but troubled brain surgeon who has just crashed his car. He will find more than he bargained for when he checks […]
Nigredo Hotel is a bizarre black comedy, an operatic thriller, and a project unlike any we have done before. It stars baritone Tyler Duncan and soprano Sarah Vardy, and is directed by Alan Corbishley. The Hotel is startling, lyric, jazz-inflected and improvisational — with a four-player combo onstage. It has become a modern Canadian masterwork. […]
Nigredo Hotel Now Open For You Just for you, an Early Bird offer: the hottest show of the fall season. You may now purchase tickets online at The Cultch website, or in person at Victoria x Venables. 604.251.1363. $60.25, $45.25, and $22.25, including service charges. In ten days they go on sale to the general public. […]
Nigredo Hotel… stars baritone Tyler Duncan and soprano Sarah Vardy (pictured), with stage direction by Alan Corbishley, lighting and sets by John Webber, costumes by Barbara Clayden – and inspiration from Carl Jung. With music by Nic Gotham, and libretto by Ann-Marie MacDonald, it is the story of an encounter between a beautiful but crazed […]
Introducing Jeremy Stewart We welcome Jeremy Stewart as our new General Manager. Jeremy’s management and fundraising experience includes work with Theatre North West, and service as General Manager of the Prince George Symphony Orchestra. In 2013 he founded Casse-Tête, an annual festival of experimental music held in Prince George, for which he received the inaugural […]
The Year that was Missing After four years’ work, in November we gave the world premiere of Missing — and then another eleven performances in Vancouver and Victoria. With libretto by Marie Clements, music by Brian Current, Gitxsan materials by Vincent Gogag, this project may have been the most difficult, necessary, and wondrous work we […]
THIS MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK WE HAVE EVER DONE. A new chamber opera by Marie Clements and Brian Current. Directed by Peter Hinton. Conducted by Timothy Long. From The Globe and Mail, Marsha Lederman / October 28 2017 – “A Tragically Timely Opera” Missing is a story everybody knows, about a woman no […]
Missing: A World Premiere Chamber Opera Missing may be the most important work we have ever done. It is timely and true, difficult and necessary. Animated by the magical realism of librettist Marie Clements, the powerful and moving music of Brian Current, and directed by the masterful Peter Hinton, it is like nothing we have done […]
Tickets for Missing world premiere now on sale It is a story everyone knows, about a woman no one remembers. With libretto by Marie Clements, music by Brian Current, Gitxsan materials by Vincent Gogag (Gawa gami), directed by Peter Hinton, and produced by Janet Lea and Nora Kelly, this may be the most important work […]
Dear Friends: We would like to thank you for your support of City Opera by offering an Early Bird opportunity. For the next eight days, advance tickets are available only to you. MISSING will be performed at The York Theatre on Commercial Drive: Friday 3 November / 8pm Sunday 5 November / 2pm Tuesday 7 […]
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.
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