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When and Where October 25 & 30 at 7.30pm + November 2 at 2pm, 2025 | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Rigoletto
Michael Chioldi Gilda Sarah Dufresne Duke
of Mantua Conductor Jacques Lacombe Stage Director Glynis Leyshon Set Designer James Rotondo Costume Designer Pam Johnson Lighting Designer Gerald King Chorus Director and Associate Conductor Leslie Dala Sung in Italian with English SURTITLES™ Reviewer John Anthony Jane The opera, originally named La Maledizione, but later changed to that of its central character Rigoletto, a master of bad karma, is densely packed with emotional arias and filled with curses and ironic twists. Vancouver Opera has for this production assembled a fine cast of singers who breathe life into their roles. Full review
When & Where April 26 - May 3, 2025; evenings at 7.30pm + 2pm matinees on Sunday | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Sung in Italian with English SURTITLES™ Conductor Jacques Lacombe Director Mo Zhou Assistant Director Tayte Mitchell Chorus Director Leslie Dala Lighting Design Marie Yokoyama Set Design Lloyd Evans Costume Design Ruoxuan Li Intimacy Director Lisa Goebel Stage Manager Theresa Tsang Cio-Cio-San Yasko Sato (Karen Chai-Ling Ho) Pinkerton Robert Watson (Adam Luther) Sharpless Brett Polegato Suzuki Nozomi Kato Goro Julius Ahn Yamadori/Imperial Commissioner Luka Kawabata Imperial Registrar Danlie Rae Acebuque The Bonze Insung Sim Reviewer John Anthony Jane Director Mo Zhou’s vision of Butterfly is markedly different from the traditional version that we have come to love. It is still in set in Nagasaki, and of course contains the glorious music and the achingly poignant arias. Nonetheless, Ms. Zhou has reset the story in the historic period of the so-called “American occupation” that followed the surrender of the Japanese Empire in 1945, introducing a political element to the narrative. Full review
When & Where February 8 - February 16, 2025; evenings at 7.30pm + 2pm matinee on Sunday | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Refugee
Cameron Shahbazi Controller
Caitlin Wood Bill Asitha Tennekook Tina
Andriana Chuchman Older Woman Megan Latham
Stewardess Alex Hetherington Steward
Clarence Frazer Minskman Neil Craighead
Minskwoman Stephanie Tritchew Immigration Officer Conductor Leslie Dala Director Morris Panych Set Design Ken MacDonald Costume Design Dana Osbornee Lighting Design Alan Brodie Fight director Nicholas Harrison Stage Manager Theresa Chang In English with English SURTITLES™ Reviewer Elizabeth Paterson Almost without introduction – there is no overture – the Refugee, Cameron Shahbazi, grounded downstage left, invites us to look up, up, high up to where the Controller, Caitlin Wood, like the Queen of the Night, almost floats in the roof-beams of Ken MacDonald’s airy sketch of an airport. Her voice, a stratospheric coloratura and his other-worldly counter-tenor, instantly set them apart from other mortals who soon appear. There are Bill (Asitha Tennekoon) and Tina (Andriana Churchman) a couple setting off on holiday to revivify their marriage. Full review
When & Where October 26 - November 3, 2024; evenings at 7.30pm + 2pm matinee on Sunday | Queen Elizabeth Theatre Rosalinde Lara Ciekiewicz, Soprano Adele Claire de Sévigné, Soprano Gabriel Eisenstein John Chest, Baritone Dr. Falke Peter Barrett, Baritone Frank Giles Tomkins, Bass-baritone Orlofsky Mireille Lebel, Mezzo-Soprano Alfred Owen McCausland, tenor Dr. Blind Lyndon Ladeur, Tenor Ida Heidi Duncan, Soprano Ivania Simran Claire, Mezzo-soprano Frosch Beatrice Zeilinger Conductor Jacques Lacombe Director Ashlie Corcoran Set Design Julie Lévesque Intimacy Director Lisa Goebel Costume Design Emily Wahlman Lighting Design Gerald King Choreography Shelley Stewart Hunt Stage Manager Michelle Harrison Dialogue in English, sung in German with English SURTITLES™ Reviewer John Anthony Jane This meretricious, though delightfully entertaining Strauss operetta, produced by Vancouver Opera under the artful direction of Ashlie Corcoran, is a good old-fashioned caper with a healthy measure of mistaken identities and cheating spouses. The production, sung in German, though with most of the dialogue spoken in modern English, has been moved forward from its original setting in 1874 to the ‘swinging sixties.’ Full review
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