Friday, August 7, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Vivaldi’s best-known concertos for violin and string orchestra revolutionized ideas about what orchestral music could achieve. In these compositions, music has learned to represent flowing creeks, singing birds (of different species, each specifically characterized), a shepherd and his barking dog, buzzing flies, storms, drunken dancers, hunting parties from both the hunters’ and prey’s point of […]
Thursday, August 6, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – This programme is created around a specific piano, the 1819 Graf, and presents two icons of the repertoire (Beethoven’s Ghost and Schubert’s op. 100) alongside a little-known gem: the single movement Beethoven wrote for pianist Maximiliane Brentano, the woman who inspired Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther. Beethoven bares his soul in the middle movement […]
Wednesday, August 5, 2026 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Rising medieval ensemble COMTESSA present a program that offers a rare glimpse into the vibrant musical culture of the British isles from 1150 to 1300. The influence of Celtic folk songs and dances, troubadour music, and plainchant is evident in these pieces, which often employ themes of nature and allegory. COMTESSA curates this collection of […]
Wednesday, August 5, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Music contains all the power of the unsaid; it guides our understanding of the text but also our deepest feelings while following it. Franz Schubert shows a masterful use of this power in his song cycle Die schöne Müllerin: The twenty songs trace a journey through love and loss: A wandering miller falls in love […]
Tuesday, August 4, 2026 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Take a journey through the music of Renaissance Florence and Paris, and discover the origins and evolution of an art form. The birth of opera is traced through composers such as Giulio Caccini, Jacopo Peri, and composers of the ‘airs de cour’ Sébastien Le Camus and Michel Lambert, inspired by the poetry of Henriette de […]
Tuesday, August 4, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Lachrimæ, or Seaven Teares is the collection that made John Dowland famous across Europe—so much so that he proudly styled himself “Jo: Dolande de Lachrimæ.” The work is emblematic of the Elizabethan fascination with melancholy, yet it reminds us of a timeless paradox: sad music often brings us comfort, not despair. Indeed, Dowland himself once […]
Sunday, August 2, 2026 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – The myth of the hero Orpheus, whose music could tame nature and conquer death, finds its most powerful expression in Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo, the groundbreaking 1607 opera that helped launch the art form. Over four centuries later, its story of love and loss remains as moving as ever. This fully staged production features a cast […]
Saturday, August 1, 2026 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – While we know and love Bach for his cantatas, oratorios, concertos, and chamber music, he never seems more himself than on the organ. His writings for the ‘king of all instruments’ (W.A. Mozart) open the gates to an entire universe of harmony and polyphony, achieving a degree of freedom impossible for any other instrument, and […]
Saturday, August 1, 2026 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm – Bach Dances is a world premiere contemporary dance production conceived by award-winning choreographer and opera stage director Idan Cohen. A co-production between Ne.Sans Opera and Dance, The Dance Centre and Early Music Vancouver, the work reimagines Bach’s first three cello suites as a powerful theatrical experience of live music and contemporary dance.
Saturday, August 1, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Bach Dances is a world premiere contemporary dance production conceived by award-winning choreographer and opera stage director Idan Cohen. A co-production between Ne.Sans Opera and Dance, The Dance Centre and Early Music Vancouver, the work reimagines Bach’s first three cello suites as a powerful theatrical experience of live music and contemporary dance.
Friday, July 31, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – The myth of the hero Orpheus, whose music could tame nature and conquer death, finds its most powerful expression in Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo, the groundbreaking 1607 opera that helped launch the art form. Over four centuries later, its story of love and loss remains as moving as ever. This fully staged production features a cast […]
