Vancouver Opera season and festival will feature a quartet of productions
Vancouver Opera announced tickets are now on sale for a 2018-2019 season featuring two standalone operas, and its third annual festival.
“Our new season and...
This year’s Vancouver Folk Music Festival finds a gender balance
The 41st annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival is set to begin this weekend at Kitsilano’s Jericho Beach Park. Under predicted sunny weather, this year’s...
Chan Centre announces its 2018/2019 season
In a media release, the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at the University of British Columbia announced its 2018/2019 Concert and Beyond Words series.
Included...
Abdullah Ibrahim revisits the sounds of his South African apartheid-era jazz band
The Jazz Epistles were South Africa’s first black jazz band to record an album and break onto the world stage. Half a century after the...
New opera confronts and honours the death and disappearance of Indigenous women
City Opera Vancouver and Pacific Opera Victoria presents the world premiere of Missing, shedding new light on a national crisis.
Written by Canadian Métis playwright Marie Clements, with a...
Freedom Singer is the culmination of a journey
It started with a book, became a CBC documentary, and is now on stage. It seems somehow appropriate the road to Khari Wendell McClelland’s...
Review: Circle Game is perfection
Setting expectations may be the biggest key to your enjoyment of Circle Game.
Is it musical theatre? Not really, as it lacks a cohesive narrative. Is...
Vancouver Opera returns to a full year of programming in its next season
With the inaugural Vancouver Opera Festival still in full swing, Vancouver Opera has announced it will present a full year of programming in addition to its...
Inaugural Vancouver Opera Festival features a trio of new productions
Three new opera productions are at the centre of the inaugural Vancouver Opera Festival.
“At the core of our sixteen-day festival are three fantastic new productions,...
musica intima appoints longtime vocalist as new artistic manager
Vocalist and music educator Siri Olesen has been named the new artistic manager at musica intima, the Vancouver vocal chamber ensemble specialising in contemporary...