As Vancouver Opera recent presentation of Don Pasquale marks the midway of the current season the Company prepares to celebrate its 65th anniversary with the announcement of its 2024–2025 season. In October, Strauss’ eternally-charming Die Fledermaus opens the season, followed by Jonathan Dove’s compassionate contemporary classic Flight in February 2025. Puccini’s sublime masterpiece Madama Butterfly…
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Donizetti’s Don Pasquale Brings Hijinx To Vancouver Opera.
Vancouver Opera’s season continues with two more performances of Gaetano Donizetti’s comic opera, Don Pasquale February 15 and 18. Opening last Saturday at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Don Pasquale is another opulent production, with whimsical sets, comic turns, and soaring vocals – and laundry! Before the curtain raises a full-height Fotoromanzo (romantic-comic photo novel) teases audiences with…
Vancouver Opera Opens Its Seasons with The Magic Flute
Vancouver Opera opened its 2023-2024 season with Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Originally staged in the 18th Century, Die Zauberflöte, is a singspiel, a form of opera that includes singing as well as spoken dialogue to tell its story. In this case a fantasy fable that intertwines, love, revenge, perseverance, ancient wisdoms, with elements of Freemasonry…
As The Flying Dutchman closes out this season, Vancouver Opera reveals it coming 2023–2024 season.
As Vancouver Opera closes out its 2022-2023 season it has announced the performances coming in the 2023–2024 season. With Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman wrapping the current season with performances April 29, May 4 and May 7, audiences won’t have to wait long in anticipation of the new season. The Vancouver Opera 2023-2024 season begins in…
Vancouver Opera’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream awakes
Vancouver Opera continues its season with Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, at Queen Elizabeth Theatre for two more performances February 16 and 19. One of Shakespeare’s wildest plays, as adapted by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears in 1960 comes to the the stage in a wild opera, directed by Aria Umezawa. After Puck/Robin Goodfellow,…
Vancouver Opera’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream wakes in 2 weeks
In just two weeks, the Vancouver Opera 2022-2023 season continues with the company premiere of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. British composer Benjamin Britten’s romantic, atmospheric opera makes its Vancouver Opera debut for three performances starting February 11th at 7:30pm, followed by Thursday, February 16th at 7:30pm and Sunday, February 19 at 2pm. Adapted from the…
Vancouver Opera opens with Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers
Vancouver Opera opened its 2022-2023 season at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre with a lush, full-scale production of Georges Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers. In spite of the fact that the French writers and composer never set foot on the island, as we are told in the opening prologue, The Pearl Fishers transports the audience to the…