Upcoming Events
Monster’s Made: Medusa/Melpomene
Presented by Good Mess Opera Theatre
Composed by Roan Shankaruk
Libretto by Georgia Perdikoulias
Monster’s Made is a new opera retelling the stories of the misunderstood, misrepresented, and demonized women of Greek Mythology from their perspectives. Written for 9 treble voices, the story takes the audience on a guided museum tour where they meet each character and hear the story of how they came to be viewed as monsters.
Thunderstorm: Shi Ping
A fusion of Western and Asian Operatic interpretation of Yu Cao's Shakespearean inspired play, tells the story of Thunderstorm. A charming woman's heart is driven crazy by love. A young master regrets his sins but commits even greater ones without knowing it. Family secrets, life secrets. The guilty and the innocent. All this happened on a thunderstorm night of destruction....
Angel’s Bone: Mrs. XE
From four of Canada’s most innovative music and opera organizations comes the Canadian premiere of Du Yun and Royce Vavrek’s Angel’s Bone. This Pulitzer-prize winning opera uses contemporary opera as a creative lens and collaborative tool to generate conversation and awareness around human trafficking of youth, happening in our Canadian communities.
Using multimedia design elements and a unique community engagement approach that brings together social workers, survivors, lawyers, human rights activists and opera artists in co-presentation, this once-in-a-lifetime cross-cultural event premiered in Vancouver in November 2022, and travels to Toronto in March 2024.
Co-produced with Sound the Alarm Music/Theatre (Vancouver), Turning Point Ensemble (Vancouver), Array Music (Toronto) and Loose Tea Music Theatre (Toronto).
Live from the Underworld
A stunning combination of opera and real-time motion capture technology blend together to create a beautiful story of folklore and fantasy!
Opera Pub
** In collaboration with Against the Grain Theatre and City Opera Vancouver **
AtG’s Opera Pubs are improvised, wild nights that offer up your favorite operatic arias and ensembles, performed by both established and emerging opera talent. Opera pubs are the perfect introduction for newbies and a welcome break for opera vets who want to see something “a little different.” What’s more fun than opera and a beer with friends?
Future Mythologies
** In collaboration with Re:Naissance Opera for Indiefest 2023 **
In tribute to this year’s festival theme, Future Mythologies is a celebratory showcase for the new works in development that aspire to redefine the future of storytelling, and become the myths of tomorrow. Through performance excerpts and facilitated discussions between artists and audiences, this event unveils the captivating evolution of three groundbreaking new works: “Eurydice Fragments,” “CHINATOWN,” and “Inferno”.
Eurydice Fragments: re:Naissance Opera’s AUREA award winning team gathers once more to fuse opera, dance, extended reality, and emerging technology in this contemporary version of the Orphean myth. Through an immersive exploration of our digital and carbon existences, the performance dissolves the binaries we are bound to from birth until death, and strums the threads between heaven and hell, male and female, maker and muse, performer and audience.
Mabuhay 2023
PhilCAS presents Mabuhay! This years fundraising event will showcase the growth of PhilCAS from the past 20 years.
Special performances by Wings Vocal Collective and Kimig Kabataan Choir
Magic Flute Miscast Cabaret
Experience the unexpected at Vancouver Opera’s special Magic Flute Miscast cabaret on October 27 at 7:30pm, at The O’Brian Centre for Vancouver Opera.
Dive into an evening here Mozart’s enchanting melodies meet an unparalleled twist. What happens when beloved arias are voiced in ways you’d never dream of? Pure, unadultered hilarity! Yep, we’re throwing gender norms out the window and having some campy fun.
Co-produced with Seagrass Music Society, this isn’t just any opera event. Let Vancouver’s “String Queen” (Georgia Straight) Molly Mackinnon whisk you away through this whirlwind of musical surprises. From laughs to virtuosity, and the sheer joy of the unexpected, this is a night not to be missed.