July 15th 2021 PDT
Having trouble viewing this message? read it online!NOW AT *CITY OPERA ONLINE*:At the Statue of VenusWatch it now at City Opera OnlineRose has been set up on a blind date. What could go wrong? Almost everything, it seems...A romance for our times. And then some.They agree to meet at the statue of Venus, but the moment Rose arrives she has doubts: The slacks were a mistake. Too late now. Brazen it out… There’s a bald spot. You know, a few hours at the gym wouldn’t exactly kill you, either…It was a sexy voice: “I’ll meet ...Continue Reading
June 14th 2021 PDT
Having trouble viewing this message? read it online!With the coming of summer...and the new COVID rules, we resume our PoPUpOpera mini-concerts.We gave 19 last year, and are planning 35 this year – all free, and all outdoors. The first is at the gorgeous Sun-Yat Sen Classical Chinese Gardens. Another twelve will be held at underserved parks, pursuant to our new agreement with the Vancouver Park Board.City Opera Online / free1. THE HUMAN VOICE: LA VOIX HUMAINE (47:46) starring tenor Isaiah Bell, with pianist Roger Parto ...Continue Reading
May 17th 2021 PDT
City Opera Vancouver announcesone-year postponement of Chinatown Was September 2021Now September 2022 “Regretfully, City Opera Vancouver must postpone its world premiere of CHINATOWN to September 2022,” City Opera president Ethel Whitty announced today. Chinatown is a new chamber opera by librettist Madeleine Thien and composer Alice Ping Yee Ho, with Hoisan translations by Paul Yee, scenic design by Camellia Koo, and lighting design by John Webber. It has been in development and workshop ...Continue Reading
March 26th 2021 PDT
Having trouble viewing this message? read it online!(Apologies for the previous version of this email, with a gibberish-filled subject line, that some of you already received. We'll do our best to avoid a recurrence!)*Does anyone have perru-queries?*If so, City Opera has answers.One of the wittiest, most sly and subtle comic cantatas ever written, Perruqueries [questions about wigs] was published at City Opera Online today.Click here to watch it now.With libretto by *Bill Richardson*, and music by *Jocelyn Morlock ...Continue Reading
March 26th 2021 PDT
Having trouble viewing this message? read it online!*Does anyone have perru-queries?*If so, City Opera has answers.One of the wittiest, most sly and subtle comic cantatas ever written, Perruqueries [questions about wigs] was published at City Opera Online today.Click here to watch it now.With libretto by *Bill Richardson*, and music by *Jocelyn Morlock*, Perruqueries is a wickedly funny take on wigs and the people who wear them. Perruqueries considers the wigged histories of Bobby Hull, Andy Warhol, and Galina Vis ...Continue Reading
March 15th 2021 PDT
Having trouble viewing this message? read it online!The Human Voice / Online Opera No. 1...starring tenor Isaiah Bell, with pianist Roger Parton, has attracted wonderful reviews. In the Spring 2021 edition of Opera Canada, critic Robert Jordan writes: “With a remarkably fine tenor, Isaiah Bell conveys his character’s vain attempts to communicate an utter devastation that his male lover is ending their relationship. Bell’s fine-tuned performance is so perfectly married to his own sensitive and intelligen ...Continue Reading
January 18th 2021 PDT
Having trouble viewing this message? read it online! /*MEUS EX MACHINA*/ *THE HUMAN VOICE. NOW COMPLETE, ONLINE, AND FREE* A dazzling and contemporary adaptation of Poulenc’s masterpiece, /La Voix Humaine/. The agony of failed love. Failed technology. A story of ourselves. This is the first new production at *City Opera Online*. Starring tenor Isaiah Bell, with pianist Roger Parton, /The Human Voice/ presents a flip of gender, and a metaphor of global pandemic. It runs 47:00. Now in Englis ...Continue Reading
January 11th 2021 PDT
A vivid new production of a masterpiece. “The Human Voice” released atCity Opera Online The agony of failed love. The coldness of the machine. The voice of humanity. City Opera Vancouver’s first online opera will be released on Monday 11 January 2021, beginning at noon. It is free to all, on our YouTube channel. Starring Canadian tenor Isaiah Bell, with pianist Roger Parton, it will initially appear as a series of seven webisodes, each going up at noon for a week. On 18 January 2021, ...Continue Reading
December 16th 2020 PDT
Having trouble viewing this message? read it online! *The Human Voice. La Voix Humaine / Jan 2021* ... starring tenor Isaiah Bell, has been filmed at The Cultch Historic Theatre, and is set for release as a series of nightly webisodes in January 2021, sung in a new English translation. Thanks to coach/pianist Roger Parton, Chris Randle (video), Andrew Smith (sound), Sophie Tang (light), stage manager Trudy Chalmers, and the Hamber, Griffin, and McLean foundations. At the end of the series, /The ...Continue Reading
November 12th 2020 PDT
Having trouble viewing this message? read it online! On October 2, we launched the /Festival of Contemporary/. It runs to October 31. We have introduced rare, archival, unique and most moving film of 21st C Canadian artists active in song, drama and theatre, composition and collaboration, fusion and fantasy, opera and dance and cinema. And more. We have offered the work and imagination of Canadian artists Brent Carver, Trevor Eliot Bowes, Cris Derksen, Crystal Pite and Ballet BC, Jeremy Berkman, Elio ...Continue Reading
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