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APRIL 21, 2023, VANCOUVER, B.C. – Conventional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations – Vancouver Opera is worked up to announce the 2023–2024 season. In October, Mozart’s The Magic Flute will start the season adopted by Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in February 2024. Closing the season will probably be Bizet’s a lot liked opera Carmen for 5 performances in April and Could 2024.
“We’re excited to current an unimaginable season of opera “classics” to show our nice artwork type to new audiences,” mentioned Tom Wright, Vancouver Opera Basic Director. “Two of the operas haven’t been seen in over a decade and one has solely been produced as soon as in our 64-year historical past. Every of our productions function returning administrators who wowed VO audiences prior to now and perceive the magic and fervour that programs by means of these tales. We’re excited to be presenting these spectacular productions that burst with color and vitality, attain the very core of our humanity and illicit ardour, smiles and tears with their sweeping compositions.”
Opening the 2023–2024 season is The Magic Flute by Mozart, directed by Ashlie Corcoran (The Barber of Seville, February 2020) and making her VO debut is Conductor Tania Miller. This opera is a fairytale inside a fairytale, immersing the viewers in a magical, wild journey of excessive drama and eccentric delight. Owen McCausland is Tamino and making her Vancouver Opera debut is Vancouver native Kirsten MacKinnon as Pamina.
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In February, dive right into a 20th-century Technicolour makeover of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale by acclaimed artistic duo of costume/set designer André Barbe and director/choreographer Renaud Doucet (La Bohème). This all-Canadian manufacturing options Maestro Jacques Lacombe returning to Vancouver Opera (A Midsummer Night time’s Dream) to conduct Donizetti’s finely-calibrated music on this comedian masterpiece. Gregory Dahl is Don Pasquale with Elizabeth Polese as Norina, Victoria native Josh Lovell makes his Vancouver Opera debut as Ernesto and Phillip Addis as Dr. Malatesta.
Concluding the season is likely one of the most beloved and extensively carried out works in operatic historical past, Carmen by Georges Bizet. This passionate story is instructed by means of seductive arias and enduring, richly colored melodies. Rachel Peake returns to Vancouver Opera (The Pearl Fishers) to direct Carmen alongside conductor Leslie Dala (The Flying Dutchman) for a five-show engagement. Carmen will probably be portrayed by Sandra Piques Eddy and Carolyn Sproule with Jonelle Sills as Micaëla. Alok Kumar and Matthew White will each carry out the function of Don José.
Provides Wright, “collectively, the storybook enchantment of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, a vivid pop artwork reimagining of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and the fiery ardour of Bizet’s Carmen make for a season of grand scale, dazzlingly immersive experiences.”
Vancouver Opera will even be presenting a number of different particular occasions together with the return of Opera within the Park. On Sunday, July 16 audiences will probably be entertained by means of a night of duets, arias and extra led by Music Director Emeritus Jonathan Darlington. This can be a free, family-friendly occasion with actions starting at 3pm, and the live performance starting at 7:30pm in Deer Lake Park in Burnaby.
In partnership with re:Naissance Opera and H.R. MacMillan House Centre, the world premiere of Sanctuary & Storm will happen November 17 – 19 opening IndieFest 2023. An imagined debate between the 2 strongest ladies in Medieval Europe—Hildegard of Bingen and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of the Normans—frames this placing new chamber opera by award-winning composer Tawnie Olson and librettist Roberta Barker. With the omniscient Angel of Historical past performing as commentator, the sensible and unconventional ladies battle with the best way to transfer past the oppression of patriarchal society, however danger shedding sight of their widespread purpose: a world reborn.
Vancouver Opera continues its neighborhood engagement with its work in faculties, arts organizations, and neighborhood teams. Vancouver Opera in Colleges brings fully-staged operas to kids and households all through British Columbia. Venture Opera sees college students working with VO artists and lecturers to design and ship their very personal opera.
Beginning in spring 2024, Vancouver Opera and Pacific Opera Victoria are remounting their co-production of The Flight of the Hummingbird, resuming a college tour throughout the province. The opera is predicated on an Indigenous parable from the Quechuan folks of South America. The opera is influenced by the graphic novel written by acclaimed Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas and consists of parts of his dramatic Haida-manga illustrations. In it, the animals of the forest are impressed to return collectively by Dukdukdiya, the Hummingbird, to avoid wasting their stunning house from a raging fireplace.
Single tickets go on sale July 12, 2023. Subscribers have till June 9, 2023 to resume their subscription for the 2023-2024 season. For extra details about the 2023–2024 Vancouver Opera Season, and to subscribe, please go to vancouveropera.ca.
2023–2024 VANCOUVER OPERA SEASON
THE MAGIC FLUTE
by Georges Bizet
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Sung in German with English SURTITLES™ projected above the stage
Saturday, October 21, 7:30PM | Thursday, October 26, 7:30PM
Saturday, October 28, 7:30PM | Sunday, October 29, 2:00PM
DON PASQUALE
By Gaetano Donizetti
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Sung in Italian with English SURTITLES™ projected above the stage
Saturday, February 10, 7:30PM | Thursday, February 15, 7:30PM | Sunday, February 18, 2:00PM
CARMEN
By George Bizet
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Sung in French with English SURTITLES™ projected above the stage
April 27, 7:30PM | April 28, 2:00PM | Could 2, 7:30PM
Could 4, 7:30PM | Could 5, 2:00PM
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