About City Opera

City Opera Vancouver is a professional chamber opera company and will produce the intimate works by which chamber opera is defined.

The company's repertoire will include the serious and the comic, the new and the restored.

Resident in the Downtown Eastside, the company's goal is to bring chamber opera to a wide audience, including the DTES community. The repertoire will span four centuries, from chamber opera's beginnings to contemporary and commissioned works, with a special interest in Canadian music and artists.

Opera is music drama: City Opera will seek outstanding singers whose talent for tragedy and comedy will bring opera's human stories to life. The company will give singers new repertoire to explore and create new opportunities to hear voices that are at their best in an intimate setting.

Accessible and innovative, City Opera will offer a unique musical experience to Metro Vancouver audiences.

The company is pleased to announce that Prof. Abraham Rogatnick has become its first underwriter. Wide support is now being sought for the production of Pauline, and the company thanks him for his confidence.

City Opera will be resident at the restored, 650-seat Pantages Theatre in the heart of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. It is the lead company in the restoration of this unique, century-old theatre.

City Opera's artistic director, Dr. Charles Barber, serves as professional advisor to the developer and to the non-profit Society that will manage the theatre in the public interest.

City Opera Vancouver operates in partnership with the Community Arts Council of Vancouver.