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 it ...Continue Reading

City Opera News / 15 December 2015 Dear Friends: /Chamber opera is alive and well in Vancouver./ /2015 included City Opera’s first-ever tour – taking Pauline to Quebec – and a special grant of $127,000 for Missing Women from The Vancouver Foundation. Thanks to the BC Arts Council, we were able to complete our first Strategic Plan, 2015 – 2020. Thanks to the City of Vancouver, we now receive an annual Operating Grant of $15,000./ /2016 looks to be even better, with the world premiere of The Lost Operas of Mozar ...Continue Reading

This invitation is for you. And… [*]your friends who have never quite understood why you love opera so much [*]those you love who have never met Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and more [*]those who just want to spend an evening warmed and inspired by... /The greatest Italian music of all time./ City Opera presents a very special event in partnership with Il Centro: The Italian Cultural Centre. It features City Opera artists soprano Shadan Saul, mezzo Barbara Towell, tenor Sunny Shams, baritone Andrew Gre ...Continue Reading

Special Announcement The Vancouver Foundation awardsCity Opera $127,000 "We are proud and grateful," said City Opera Vancouver President Janet Lea, "to advise that the Vancouver Foundation has made a grant of $127,000 in support of our next commission, MISSING WOMEN. "This new chamber opera will tell a story everyone knows, from the vantage of a woman no one remembers. It is set in Vancouver, and along the Highway of Tears. "This extraordinary grant will allow City Opera to research, commissio ...Continue Reading

City Opera News / 15 September 2015 The Greatest Italian Music Ever Written / 28 October ...will be in the air at Il Centro on Wednesday October 28. 7:30pm. View the Il Centro event notice With soprano Shadan Saul, mezzo Barbara Towell, tenor Sunny Shams, baritone Andrew Greenwood, pianist Sean Bayntun, and host Tom Durrie. All seats $20 at the door, or online. This special event is a partnership with Il Centro: The Italian Cultural Centre. 3075 Slocan at S Grandview Highway. Pauline Goes To Quebec City / 16 October ...Continue Reading

City Opera News / 16 June 2015 Pauline Goes To Quebec City / October 2015 "/Pauline/, by Margaret Atwood and Tobin Stokes, will be given in concert performance for an international audience at Quebec City on Friday 16 October 2015," City Opera President Janet Lea announced today. This Festival is one of the largest in the world. Margaret Atwood and Tobin Stokes "At the invitation of /Festival Québec en toutes letters / Féstival litteraire//, we have been asked to present the original cast, ...Continue Reading

Job Opening: General Manager City Opera's 2014 production of PAULINE. Photo: Michelle Doherty. The Company: City Opera Vancouver is a professional chamber opera company. We specialize in new and unusual repertoire, with an emphasis on Canadian themes and artists. We commission and produce mainstage opera, and give concerts throughout the year. We are now hiring our first General Manager, and seek someone able to help realize the potential of a growing company. City Opera will maintain a strong volunteer component. Web ...Continue Reading

City Opera News / 16 March 2015 *Lost & Found: Mozart! * In October 2016 we present our next mainstage production: /The Lost Operas Of Mozart./ In his early twenties, Mozart started three operas he never completed. Two are Italian comedies, and the third a German /singspiel/. Each is a tantalizing hint of what might have been. Each is the voice of Mozart himself. And so City Opera offers another event premiere: three forgotten operas in one evening of wonderful theatre, delightful music, and probing exploration. I ...Continue Reading

City Opera News / 15 December 2014 2014 was a wonderful year. Thanks to you we gave the world premiere of PAULINE, the new opera by Margaret Atwood and Tobin Stokes. It sold out all five nights at the York Theatre, and drew international attention. We gave THE MOZART MIRACLE at the Carnegie Centre -- our 25th event in the Downtown Eastside since 2007. With pianist David Boothroyd and soprano Bahareh Poureslami. Businessman Charles Kanji donated our first costume shop. Janet, Derwyn and Tom filled it up. We appeared at ...Continue Reading

*CITY OPERA VANCOUVER* and *Il Centro Italian Cultural Centre* present P U C C I N I    a    P I A C E R E • as you like it • with soprano Chloé Hurst • soprano Sarah Vardytenor Sunny Shams • baritone Willy Miles-Grenzbergpianist Richard Epp • narrator Tom Durrie Join us for an all-Puccini spectacular. Some of the most beautiful music ever written, sung by four remarkable voices. Join us for an evening of music you already love, and music you will be thrilled to discover. Come with ...Continue Reading