City Opera Vancouver Presents the World Premiere of Margret Atwood's PAULINE, 5/23

We write to advise that City Opera Vancouver is giving the world premiere of PAULINE at the York Theatre in Vancouver at 8pm, Friday 23 May 2014.

It is the first opera by Margaret Atwood. Its music is by Tobin Stokes, and is set at Vancouver in March 1913 in the last week in the life of Canadian writer, poet, and performance artist Pauline Johnson (1861-1913).

''She had courage, brains and beauty, like many of the best operatic heroines. She also led a double life, in which a secret love, a jealous sister and an early death were elements," commented Atwood.

City Opera president Nora Kelly said of the opera: "Haunted by failure, torn by her dual identity as both Mohawk and white, Pauline Johnson fights to confront her past before the end, as her doctor tries to control the pain and her sister tries to control the story that will be told. It is an extraordinary work of art."

We write in particular to offer reviewer tickets, should you be able to assign a critic to this premiere. If so, please advise Caroline Wiese [info^at^cityoperavancouver.com] by 1 May 2014, and we will provide them to you.

City Opera Vancouver is a professional chamber opera company, founded in 2006. Our credits include the BC premiere ofDer Kaiser von Atlantis; the Canadian event premiere of Sumidagawa & Curlew River; and, the creation of Fallujah, funded by a $250,000 commissioning grant from the Annenberg Foundation of Los Angeles. The Foundation later awarded another $100,000 toward a documentary film about the project.

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