Dear Friends:
We would like to invite you to attend The Emperor of Atlantis.
It is a tonal, beautiful and deeply moving chamber opera. It is a British Columbia premiere. Written by Viktor Ullmann and Petr Kien in 1944 at Theresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp, it may be the most wondrous opera you’ve never heard.
Death is disgusted by the Emperor’s bloody projects. He goes on strike. People are killed, but do not die. The Emperor demands Death return to work. Death agrees, but on one condition…
Complete details, a synopsis, and cast and production team bios can be found in the Emperor section of the City Opera Vancouver website.
Offered with the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, and generous donations from numerous private individuals, 2010 Legacies Now Innovations, the Martha Lou Henley Foundation, ABC Recycling, Accent Inns, Tom Lee Music, the Schwartz/Reisman Foundation, the Electric Company, and the Lutsky Family Foundation, it will be a special moment in your life. Will you join us?
Generously supported by the Vancouver Musicians Association, and Canadian Actors Equity, it stars a professional cast and orchestra -- including Andrew Greenwood, John Minágro, William George, Robyn Driedger-Klassen, Samuel Chung, Stephen Aberle and Megan Morrison. Stage director: Peter Jorgensen. Music director: Charles Barber. Producer: Janet Lea. Associate producer: Nora Kelly. Will you join them?
On opening day, the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, the Honourable Steven Point, will attend and speak. Will you join him?
Although its creators did not survive the Nazis, their masterpiece did. Please join us.
