March break is winding down but there’s lots of entertaining to do for the final weekend. Masterpiece: Imagine Van Gogh: The Immersive Exhibition is now open at Vancouver Convention Centre, and already extended its run until August 29, 2021 so you have the whole summer to see this amazing spectacle of Van Gogh’s masterpieces. Listen: The…
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The Music Shop comes to Vancouver Opera Digital Season
The Vancouver Opera digital 2020–2021 season continues with the online premiere of the rarely performed The Music Shop, on Saturday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m. Making its Canadian debut, the comedy, composed by Richard Wargo and featuring this year’s Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program participants, is sure to delight audiences. Set in 19th century Russia, Ivan…
Wagner for Valentine’s with Vancouver Opera
This weekend, share a little love with Wagner for Valentine. Vancouver Opera is presenting a special Wagner double bill performance on February 13th at 7:30 p.m. featuring two chamber music works by Richard Wagner. Filmed in Vancouver’s Christ Church Cathedral, Leslie Dala conducts members of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and Mezzo-Soprano Krisztina Szabó. “In this…
Vancouver Opera Rolls Out A 2020-2021 Digital Season
Vancouver Opera has added their reimagined 2020–2021 season to Vancouver’s growing Covid-era Fall Arts scene. Embracing digital content with diverse and high-quality series of programming this marks Vancouver Opera’s first-ever digital season. “Vancouver Opera is taking the performances off the stage and reimagining a season for the screen and at-home enjoyment,” explains Tom Wright, Vancouver Opera General…
Vancouver Opera Reveals Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program Participants
While the global pandemic has kept stages dark, Vancouver Opera continues to work on its behind the scenes, education and advancement programs. Vancouver Opera has announced this seasons’ six participants in the Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program. The residency program is a bridge between formal educational programs and the professional opera world and…
Vancouver Opera Virtual Opening Night
Last night, audiences would have gathered in the anticipation of the opening night of Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera, the centrepiece performance of the Vancouver Opera Festival, presented by BMO. Vancouver Opera was forced to cancel this season’s performances due to the need to maintain physical distancing in the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. They wanted…
Make an Appointment with Vancouver Opera’s The Barber of Seville
For the Valentine’s season Vancouver Opera has delivered another beautifully-staged love story to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera The Barber of Seville is known as one of the foremost works of opera buffa – Italian comic opera, even 200+ years after its debut. The Barber of Seville brings all the stereotypes of…