City Opera News / 15 March 2016
Mozart is Lost and Found at Carnegie on March 19
Please join us for a sneak preview of Act One, THE LOST OPERAS OF MOZART. This Saturday, 4 – 5pm at the Carnegie Centre. Free, of course.
We will be testing our brilliant new script by Maria Reva (above), and giving music from Lo Sposo Deluso and L’oca del Cairo. This will be our 78th concert -- and our 31st in the DTES alone. Generously sponsored by the BC Arts Council, and BC Gaming. Lost Operas is our first comedy -- and its unknown music is extraordinary.
BREAKING NEWS: we have just been awarded a production grant for Lost Operas from the Canada Council. Now, to raise the remaining $50,000... if you would like to help, please visit our support page.
Fallujah at Long Beach Opera runs 12 - 20 March
Thanks to extraordinary grants totaling $350,000 US from the Annenberg Foundation and explore.org, in 2010 – 2012 we created the new opera Fallujah. Thanks to ongoing work of Canadian composer Tobin Stokes and Iraqi-American librettist Heather Raffo, our friends at Long Beach Opera launched the current version on 12 March.
Fallujah is our first commission ever produced in the States. Our second, Pauline, was given in Québec last October. We are now planning a tour for Missing Women in 2018.
Simulstream online at KCET.org/Fallujah and LinkTV.org/Fallujah.
INFO: www.longbeachopera.org/2016-season/fallujah
30th DTES Concert / Homeground @ Oppenheimer
On 5 February we gave our 77th concert – and our 30th in the DTES alone. Soprano Michelle Koebke and pianist Roger Parton featured Rossini, Bizet, Puccini, Gershwin, and more. It was free, and produced by the Carnegie Centre. Our friends Sid Chow Tan and Elwin Xie filmed this special event. Their work may be seen here.
City Opera at Minoru Chapel on Wednesday 4 May
At 2pm and 7pm, join City Opera artists Chloé Hurst, soprano; Samuel Chan, baritone; Richard Epp, piano; and, Tom Durrie, narrator, for a delightful concert of great arias and duets for soprano and baritone. $20 at the door.
Minoru Chapel is at 6540 Gilbert Road, Richmond, behind Richmond General Hospital and the Gateway Theatre. Here's a map.
Updating our private donors’ list...
and Hilde Binford is doing all the work, entering the 200+ names and addresses of our wonderful individual sponsors. Here’s Hilde, hard at her volunteer labours.
Choosing the Composer for Missing Women
We have received recommendations from colleagues across the country. A long list of 56 has now been whittled to nine. Four of these gifted composers have been asked to set text from Marie Clements’ second draft libretto, and a Jury will hear each. City Opera uses an anonymized process, so to reduce the possibility of bias. Only when the Jury chooses, say, Number Three, will they find out who it is.
Coming Next...
City Opera at Fieste dal Popul. Famee Furlane Hall, 2605 E Pender, at Nanaimo. Melissa Howell, mezzo-soprano, and Willy Miles-Grenzberg, baritone. Tickets at the door. Sunday 3 April, 4 – 5pm
City Opera at Italian Day on The Drive. Shadan Saul, soprano; Sunny Shams, tenor; Roger Parton, pianist; and Tom Durrie, narrator. Free for 100,000 of your closest friends. Sunday 12 June, 2 – 3pm
Our YouTube Channel...
Thanks to Adam Abrams, we have now updated our YouTube Channel -- with twelve videos representing our company’s work and history. If you get tired of watching The Abominable Dr Phibes, why not check it out?
General Manager / Round Two
JOB OPENING: General Manager
COMPETITION PERIOD: 15 February to 31 March 2016
THE COMPANY: Hiring our first General Manager, we seek someone able to help realize the potential of a growing professional chamber opera company.
Requested:
1. Personal resumé and/or curriculum vitae
2. A brief statement of your interest in the position of General Manager
Please Send To:
Janet Lea, President / info@PROTECTED
More information on our website, and under Job Openings at the Arts Alliance.
Tom Durrie has retired… and we say thanks for all
Our friend and co-founder Tom has decided to retire from his many good works, including serving as our first Director of Development, and our book-keeper. He’s in very good health and has just decided to take a break.
We thank you, Tom, for a lifetime of faithful service to the arts in British Columbia.
