February 21st 2011 PDT
City Opera Receives $250,000 To Create New Chamber Opera Largest Commissioning Grant In Canadian History City Opera Vancouver’s Board of Directors is delighted to announce the company has been awarded a commissioning grant of $250,000 US from the Annenberg Foundation, in connection with the philanthropic multimedia organization Explore. This extraordinary sum is believed to be the largest single commissioning grant in Canadian history. “We would like to express our gratitude to the Annenberg Foundation and Explore f ...Continue Reading
December 2nd 2010 PDT
Help art make music: art auction stage 2 now online You’re invited. You’re wanted. Three dozen works of fine art in every medium are now available through our online auction at Heffel Fine Art Auction House. These works have been donated to City Opera Vancouver to help us create a new Production Fund. You can acquire fine art, and help make superb opera. Here’s how. Just go to the Heffel Auction House website to register and receive a paddle number. You now have a virtual paddle and can bid for what you want any ti ...Continue Reading
September 15th 2010 PDT
Help Art Make Music City Opera is creating a Production Fund. We are running an Art Auction in order to finance it. Such a Fund is essential to ongoing success, and to good business management. This Fund will help make possible Pauline – the Margaret Atwood / Christos Hatzis / Judith Forst opera – among other projects. Can you help? So far we have received over 50 works, but at this juncture can only accept works with a value over $3000. Please contact Bill Jeffries at bjeffries@PROTECTED if you have art by a ...Continue Reading
July 14th 2010 PDT
The City Opera Art Fundraiser City Opera Vancouver has now mounted two amazingly well-received productions. In 2009 we staged Der Kaiser von Atlantis at the Norman Rothstein Theatre. In May 2010 we presented a double bill based on the mediaeval Noh play Sumidagawa - it just ended its run at the Frederic Wood Theatre at UBC. Its two halves were a dance version of the play by Toronto-based Denise Fujiwara, followed by Benjamin Britten’s opera Curlew River. City Opera Vancouver does what we do on modest budgets. A modest ...Continue Reading
June 21st 2010 PDT
21 June 2010 Sumidagawa and Curlew River This has been such a great quarter for City Opera Vancouver, and its many artistic and community partners. We gave the Canadian event premiere of Sumidagawa & Curlew River, co-produced with UBC Theatre and Film, and Blackbird Theatre. It received remarkable reviews, and an overwhelming audience response. Like to download the actual programme book? Here it is. Our thanks also to the many groups that helped us present this double bill: explorASIAN, Nikkei Place, the Japanese ...Continue Reading
May 24th 2010 PDT
On Wednesday, City Opera Vancouver opens a unique double bill. Vancouver is about to see what Canada has never seen. Medieval Japan’s legend, */Sumida River/*. Benjamin Britten’s masterwork, */Curlew River/*. Japanese dance. Western opera. Together. The production is a phenomenon. Robert Gardiner and John Wright, Natsu Nakajima and Ron Snippe, have combined their gifts in something new, rare, and beautiful. Denise Fujiwara stars as Madwoman in */Sumidagawa/*. Isaiah Bell stars as Madwoman in */Cur ...Continue Reading
May 22nd 2010 PDT
Canada has never seen what Vancouver is about to see.Japanese dance. Western opera.One extraordinary story. Together. *Experience music, dance and theatre... tragedy and redemption... East and West. All in one unforgettable evening. A unique dual presentation and a Canadian first.* From the immortal Nöh drama /Sumidagawa/, two modern tellings. ~ Natsu Nakajima’s butoh dance, /*Sumida Gawa */*("Sumida River")*/, /starring Denise Fujiwara ~ Benjamin Britten’s/ /chamber oper ...Continue Reading
May 12th 2010 PDT
Canada has never seen what Vancouver is about to see.Japanese dance. Western opera.One extraordinary story. Together. *Experience music, dance and theatre... tragedy and redemption... East and West. All in one unforgettable evening. A unique dual presentation and a Canadian first.* From the immortal Nöh drama /Sumidagawa/, two modern tellings. ~ Natsu Nakajima’s butoh dance, /*Sumida Gawa */*("Sumida River")*/, /starring Denise Fujiwara ~ Benjamin Britten’s/ /chamber oper ...Continue Reading
March 16th 2010 PDT
16 March 2010 CITY OPERA NOW ON FACEBOOK We’d like you to considering becoming our fan on Facebook. Great photos, current events, and a nice complement to our website. Please ask your friends to join as well. SUMIDAGAWA & CURLEW RIVER OPENING ON MAY 26 This is a double bill, and a first in Canada. The artistic and production teams are in place, support from the Nikkei community has been tremendous, coaching has begun, and in May you will see something utterly unique: Natsu Nakajima & Benjamin Britten. Japanes ...Continue Reading
February 18th 2010 PDT
A Russell Braun Bargain 18 February 2010 Do we have a bargain for you! Russell Braun in recital. Half price for friends of City Opera. Thanks to our friend Paul Gravett at the Kay Meek Centre, and your support of City Opera, you will be able to hear the extraordinary Canadian baritone Russell Braun when you purchase two tickets for the price of one. HOW TO PURCHASE ~Phone 604.913.3634, the Kay Meek box office ~Identify yourself as a Friend of City Opera Vancouver ~Purchase two adult tickets (regular $80.00) for the p ...Continue Reading
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