OPERA VANCOUVER NEWS COVERAGE

CTYP Announces CAROLING WITH CAROUSEL Family Holiday Event
by BWW News Desk - October 29, 2018

CTYP is excited to host a special family carolling event this December at the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island. The event will feature local holiday favourites, the Gingerbread Men, who will perform an assortment of holiday classics and lead sing-a-longs of festive favourites. Holiday crafts a... (more...)

Vancouver Opera Company Heroic Opera Announces Oktoberfest Fundraiser
by BWW News Desk - October 08, 2018

Vancouver Opera company Heroic Opera will be toasting in its first fundraiser with an Oktoberfest celebration filled with German opera, food, and local craft beer. ... (more...)

Vancouver Opera Presents Lehár's THE MERRY WIDOW
by BWW News Desk - September 10, 2018

Get ready to indulge in the Viennese torte known as Franz Lehar's comedic operetta The Merry Widow (Die Lustige Witwe). Set in the heart of vibrant fin de siecle Paris, the wealthy widow Hanna Glawari schemes to win the heart of dashingly handsome Count Danilo. A scandalous caper ensues while suitor... (more...)

Vancouver Opera Announces Tickets And Subscriptions On Sale
by BWW News Desk - August 07, 2018

Tickets and subscription packages are now available for the upcoming blockbuster 2018-2019 Vancouver Opera's Season & Festival. The Season opens with Lehar's The Merry Widow (Die Lustige Witwe), an Art Nouveau-inspired comedic operetta (October 20-28, 2018, Queen Elizabeth Theatre) and continues wit... (more...)

Heroic Opera Presents ELEKTRA by Richard Strauss
by BWW News Desk - April 04, 2018

Hailed as 'The First Freudian Opera', Elektra is a tale of murder, betrayal, desperation, and the desire for vengeance that can consume us all. Richard Strauss' bloody masterpiece is brought to life by Vancouver's Heroic Opera Company with music that is powerful, raw, and jarring, and has been met w... (more...)

Pacific Opera Victoria Presents A Baroque Masterwork, Handel's RINALDO
by BWW News Desk - March 12, 2018

Pacific Opera Victoria presents Rinaldo, an exotic story of adventure and danger, heroism and love, April 19 through 29, 2018, at the Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton Street, in Victoria.... (more...)

Pacific Opera Victoria Announces Its 2018/19 Season
by BWW News Desk - February 16, 2018

Pacific Opera Victoria's 2018/19 season includes two well-known masterworks by major composers as well as a delightful work from the classical operetta repertoire.... (more...)

Pacific Opera Victoria To Present Puccini's La Boheme
by BWW News Desk - January 31, 2018

A cast of exciting and familiar voices returns to Pacific Opera Victoria (POV) for Puccini's La Boheme, a bittersweet tale of young, impoverished artists experiencing friendship, love and loss. La Boheme is presented February 15 to 25, 2018, at the Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton Street, in Victoria, B... (more...)

Two Vancouver Opera Companies Join Forces for Verdi's UN BALLO IN MASCHERA
by BWW News Desk - November 17, 2017

This November, two Vancouver companies will welcome audiences to opera's most famous masked ball.... (more...)

Two Vancouver Opera Companies Join Forces for Verdi's UN BALLO IN MASCHERA
by BWW News Desk - November 01, 2017

This November, two Vancouver companies will welcome audiences to opera's most famous masked ball.... (more...)

Japanese Noh, Western Opera Collide in TomoeArts' KAYOI KOMACHI/KOMACHI VISITED
by BWW News Desk - October 26, 2017

TomoeArts presents the world premiere of a provocative and heartrending new work, Kayoi Komachi/Komachi Visited, a noh chamber opera, October 26 - 28, 2017 at The Cultch.... (more...)

Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women Honoured in Chamber Opera MISSING
by BWW News Desk - September 26, 2017

City Opera Vancouver with Pacific Opera Victoria presents the world premiere of Missing, a profoundly moving and pivotal opera that sheds new light on a national crisis, November 3,7,9 & 11 at 8pm, and November 5 at 2pm at The York Theatre. Written by distinguished Canadian M tis playwright Marie Cl... (more...)