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

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, Eliot Britton and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Tobin Stoke ...Continue Reading

Opening Friday, at the Festival of Contemporary... Some of the most exciting work of the 21st century. Canadian artists exceptional in every domain. Art, drama, dance, music, design — and, of course, opera. One short video a day, for a month. Care to join us? It's free, and it's yours. Visit the Festival Or subscribe to us on YouTube cityoperavancouver.com / info@PROTECTED / facebook.com/cityoperavancouver To unsubscribe from this list, simply click here. ...Continue Reading

These are strange, wretched, and melancholy times. Everyone wants it to be over, awaits the vaccine, tries to obey the rules, finds no certain end in sight, and relies more than ever on friends and family. At City Opera – as with so many other companies – we are re-inventing and re-creating ourselves. Opera is taking new forms, setting new agendas, discovering new audiences, and telling great stories in novel technologies. In this issue of City Opera News we offer thanks, updates, and a version of h ...Continue Reading

A Canadian Masterpiece is Now Available at Online Auction All Proceeds Benefit City Opera "Spring Landscape With Water" by Yehouda Chaki This extraordinary work was donated by arts patron Wayne Richards, in support of the musical and social agenda of City Opera. His gift of original prints by Yousuf Karsh netted over $26,000 in 2010. Now, he has given us Spring Landscape With Water, by the renowned painter Yehouda Chaki. It is 10’ x 6’, and in pristine condition.   We tha ...Continue Reading

*IN THIS ISSUE:* Mutual Aid • Chinatown • Berlin in 1934 • Kattia And Miro • Jaap Mutual Aid Performing arts organizations and artists are being swept by a tsunami. We have seen our best replies: sopranos singing opera to their neighbours. Orchestras online, playing from 60 different music rooms. Italian Air Force jets streaming red, white, and green flares while Pavarotti sings Vincerò to thousands below. From the Berlin Philharmonic to The Canadian Opera Company, great houses a ...Continue Reading

WELCOME TO BERLIN, 1934The Last Night. The Last Cabaret. July 1934. An abandoned factory in Berlin. A dissident troupe gathers to perform a clandestine show for their friends – some of whom have already gone missing. It is two weeks after the Night of the Long Knives. Welcome to the worlds of Claire, Ernst, Fritz, Sebastian, and Trude – confronted by a Berlin that is no longer the life of Europe, but has become a capital city ruled by madness and egomania, fear and lying, on a colossal scale. How do they ...Continue Reading

Berlin In 1934 • Chinatown in Workshop • Missing On Tour • 2019 In Review • Can You Help? Berlin 1934: The Last Cabaret 8pm 23, 24 and 25 January 2020 / Performance Works on Granville Island  Tickets on sale now. All seats $44.50 only through PuSh For the first time, a City Opera production is part of the great PuSh International Festival – and co-presented with Sound The Alarm: Music/Theatre. We partner in the spirit of cabaret itself: eclectic, electric, and new. Pl ...Continue Reading

Berlin In 1934 • Chinatown in Workshop • Missing On Tour • 2019 In Review • Can You Help? Berlin 1934: The Last Cabaret 8pm 23, 24 and 25 January 2020 / Performance Works on Granville Island  Tickets on sale now. All seats $44.50 only through PuSh For the first time, a City Opera production is part of the great PuSh International Festival – and co-presented with Sound The Alarm: Music/Theatre. We partner in the spirit of cabaret itself: eclectic, electric, and new. Pl ...Continue Reading

21 November 2019 MEDIA RELEASE: IMMEDIATE   City Opera Vancouver announces public workshops for new opera Chinatown   Libretto written by Madeleine Thien Supported by The Vancouver Foundation and The City of Vancouver City Opera Vancouver today released the schedule for the first public workshops of its next commission, Chinatown. This new opera, by the renowned writer Madeleine Thien, is set for world premiere in September 2021 at The Vancouver Playhouse. The ...Continue Reading