The Human Voice (2021)
Music by Francis Poulenc
Text by Isaiah Bell
Isaiah Bell, tenor
Roger Parton, piano
A vivid new production of a masterpiece. A story for our times.
In the original, a lone soprano sings into a telephone, frustrated by a technology that fails and distances and impairs any prospect of intimacy. Her lover advises that he has found another woman. We present a flip of gender, and a metaphor of global pandemic. Yet technology is once again enemy to intimacy.
At the Statue of Venus (2021)
Music by Jake Heggie
Libretto by Terrence McNally
Robyn Driedger-Klassen, soprano
Terrence Dawson, piano
Rose is set up on a blind date At the Statue of Venus. What could possibly go wrong? Almost everything, it seems. A romance for our times. And then some.
Perruqueries (2021)
Music by Jocelyn Morlock
Text by Bill Richardson
Robyn Driedger-Klassen, soprano
Peter Monaghan, bass-baritone
Tina Chang, piano
Perruqueries is a hilarious and deeply-informed look at wigs and the divos and divas who love and need them. With text by Bill Richardson and music by the VSO’s own Jocelyn Morlock, this 20-minute entertainment will amuse and amaze. Hear about the soprano whose wig caught fire during Tosca, hockey players who wear more than helmets on their heads, and more!
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.
