Production History
Founded in 2006, City Opera Vancouver has begun its 14th year commissioning and presenting full productions of chamber opera, and of operatic repertoire in concert. We have produced 167 recitals, readings, special events, and MainStage productions.
55 special events have been given in the DTES, including workshops of newly commissioned operas at the Carnegie Centre, Native Education College, Chinese Cultural Centre, Floata, and the CNL Auditorium. We average one such event a month, year-round.
These have taken place at Granville Island, Museum of Vancouver, Minoru Chapel, DTES Carnegie Centre, Oppenheimer Park, Il Centro: the Italian Cultural Centre, Vancouver Playhouse, Italian Day on The Drive, Holt Renfrew, Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, Roedde House, Sun-Yat Sen Chinese Classical Gardens, Evelyne Saller Centre, Jacob’s Well, DTES Homeground Festival, Pigeon Park, Kay Meek Theatre, Eagle Harbour Yacht Club, Strathcona Community Centre, Shadbolt Centre, St James Anglican Church, Chinatown Night Market, Hodson Manor, Famee Furlane Cultural Centre, Lost Lagoon, Phoenix Recovery Society of Surrey, Westminster Recovery House in New Westminster, Last Door Recovery Society in New Westminster, BC Culture Days, the DTES Fearless Festival, The Annex, Canadian Music Centre, InterUrban Gallery, John Fluevog Shoes, City of Vancouver Council Chambers, West End Car Free Day, CBC Studio 700, Britannia Seniors Centre, Trout Lake Community Centre at John Hendry Park, Beaconsfield Park, Chinatown SkyTrain Plaza, International Village Plaza, and MacLean Park.
We have also given nine mainstage productions, including five commissions.
2020 Berlin: The Last Cabaret (devised by Alan Corbishley, Joanna Garfinkel, Roger Parton) World Premiere, at PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Performance Works
2019 Missing (Marie Clements and Brian Current)
Tour to Victoria, Prince George, and Regina. Various
2018 Nigredo Hotel (Ann-Marie Macdonald and Nick Gotham) Vancouver Premiere. Historic Cultch Theatre
2017 Missing (Marie Clements and Brian Current)
World Premiere. York Theatre
2017 Missing (Marie Clements and Brian Current)
Production at Pacific Opera Victoria, Baumann Centre
2017 Fallujah (Heather Raffo and Tobin Stokes)
Productions at New York City Opera, Long Beach Opera, and winner of an LA Emmy. Various
2016 The Lost Operas of Mozart (W.A. Mozart and Maria Reva) World Premiere. Christ Church Cathedral
2015 Pauline (Margaret Atwood and Tobin Stokes)
Tour to Québec City. Grand Théâtre de Québec
2014 Pauline (Margaret Atwood and Tobin Stokes)
World Premiere. York Theatre
2012 Fallujah (Heather Raffo and Tobin Stokes)
World Premiere. Frederic Wood Theatre
2010 Sumidagawa & Curlew River (Motomasa, Britten)
Canadian Event Premiere. Frederic Wood Theatre
2008 Emperor of Atlantis (Viktor Ullmann and Petr Kien) British Columbia Premiere. Norman Rothstein Theatre
2007 Singalong Carmina Burana (Carl Orff)
Canadian Event Premiere. St Andrew's-Wesley United Church
[Correct at 30 September 2020]
COMING:
La Voix Humaine (November 2020), a new realization, with Isaiah Bell. By Francis Poulenc and Jean Cocteau. Online only, in English
Chinatown (September 2021), by Madeleine Thien and Alice Ping Yee Ho
Brother XII (2025), by Maria Reva