VO PRESENTS THE SECOND ANNUAL VANCOUVER OPERA FESTIVAL

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Vancouver Opera Festival – April 28 – May 6, 2018

Under the banner of the Russian White Nights, the second annual Vancouver Opera Festival celebrates Russia’s luminous midsummer “white nights” with Eugene Onegin – a beloved Russian lyric opera, and the much-anticipated premiere of The Overcoat – a musical tailoring – an opera inspired by a contemporary theatre masterpiece. The Festival will also include Requiem for a Lost Girl – an original chamber musical collaboration that explores themes around homelessness.

To kick off the Russian White Nights Vancouver Opera Festival, everyone is invited to a day dedicated to Russian Arts, Music, Food, and Culture. Food trucks, circus and street performers, pre and post-show projections will be capped off with a big-screen presentation on the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza. The nine-day Festival also proposes an intimate series of instrumental and vocal chamber music concerts featuring musicians from the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and invited guests. There is programming as well for the entire family including Prokofiev’s much-loved Peter and the Wolf. During the weekends, enjoy the ever-popular Opera Bar – a chance to socialize with performers and artists, complete with DJ performances, and much more.

Event Artists

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece of Russian lyric opera, Eugene Onegin, will be presented at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre and features Russian baritone Konstantin Shushakov as Onegin. This new production has been created in collaboration with Calgary Opera and is directed by Tom Diamond. The Vancouver Opera Orchestra and Chorus will be conducted by Jonathan Darlington. This production is sponsored by Blakes, Cassels & Graydon LLP.James Rolfe’s The Overcoat – a musical tailoring, a collaboration with Toronto’s Canadian Stage Company and Tapestry Opera and inspired by the 1998 smash-hit play of the same name, fills the stage of the intimate Vancouver Playhouse. Morris Panych returns to direct this new operatic reinterpretation of his original play. Leslie Dala conducts. This production is sponsored by The McGrane-Pearson Endowment Fund.The Vancouver Opera Festival will also feature Requiem for a Lost Girl, a powerful chamber musical about homelessness performed by members of VO’s Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program and members of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and Chorus, with performances and material by participants from The Kettle Society - an organization that supports people with mental illness to lead better lives.A number of special events take place throughout the nine days. The Festival will kick off on April 28 with a full day of all things Russian, including street performers, projections, food trucks and a big screen presentation on the Queen Elizabeth Plaza. On May 1, Vancouver Opera celebrates Jonathan Darlington’s fifteen-year tenure as Music Director with a special evening of music, entitled From Russia with Love to Jonathan Darlington. A Russian Songfest on May 2 features outstanding young opera singers from the Vancouver Opera training programs. On our closing day May 6, Vancouver Opera, in collaboration with Early Music Vancouver and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, presents an afternoon of Russian baroque music-- Russian White Nights: Opera Arias from 18th century St. Petersburg, featuring reigning baroque soprano Karina Gauvin, at the Chan Centre for Performing Arts. An original series of short chamber music concerts featuring Russian composers, and Russian inspired artists, performed by members of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and invited guests, will take place at CBC Studio 700.

VO PRESENTS THE SECOND ANNUAL VANCOUVER OPERA FESTIVAL

Date/Time
Saturday, April 28, 2018
7:30 pm - 10:30 pm

Location
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
630 Hamilton Street
Vancouver, BC
Canada, V6B 2P1

Price
Free - $161.75

Phone
(604) 683 - 0222

Website
https://www.vancouveropera.ca/Vancouver-Opera-Festival-2018

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