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Angel's Bone

2024 
(& 2022)

2017 Pulizer Prize
winning opera

by Du Yun & Royce Vavrek

Helping to address Human Trafficking and the exploitation of youth in our communities.

Toronto Debut
March 22 - 24, 2024

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Music
of the Night

The Concert Tour

This continued celebration of Andrew Lloyd Webber's upcoming 75th birthday includes all his most iconic theatrical music. The tour has now visited 54 cities throughout Canada with 17more this Spring (2024).

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Ebony
Roots
CONCERT

In honour of Black History Month, our Part 2 concert is celebrating an esteemed team of BC African Descent musicians and will feature a program of all Black music

PART 2:
February 9, 8pm
Yaletown Roundhouse

PART 1:
was December 2, 2023

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Bombay
Black

Magical Music-Theatre

STA is proud to be working with Anosh Irani to adapt his award-winning play, Bombay Black, into an opera.

Aiming to make its World Premiere in 2025/26

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Theatre
for the Ears!
 

Audio Dramas


Theatre for the Ears is a series of fictional audio-dramas that 'sound an alarm' on our environmental and sociological challenges and their effects on human experience.

Each episode will be an independent story created through the diverse lenses of our cultural landscape and will be unique immersive audio experiences for the listener.  
 
Now Available

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Pilgrimage to Bach

A Reclamation of Spirit

A exciting collaboration with Early Music Vancouver and Baritone Jonathon Adams in our theatrical look at two of Bach's greatest cantata's - BWV 82 "Ich Habe Genug" and BWV 56 "Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen"

Alarm:  Mental Health

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Berlin:
The Last Cabaret

Produced by City Opera Vancouver
in association with Sound the Alarm: Music/Theatre

Presented at the
2020 PuSh
International Performing Arts Festival

This cabaret celebrates the subversive power of art and offers a warning to those who would take freedom for granted.
1934: As Nazism tightens its grip on Germany, a satirical cabaret troupe faces physical danger and a moral crisis. Members have disappeared under suspicious circumstances; the five that remain have to decide whether to bend to intimidation or perform their work uncensored. With death looming in the air, the risks couldn’t be higher—and yet the desperate need for expression is still there...

Vancouver, 2020.

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Acis + Galatea

an opera by G. F. Handel

Presented in September 2017, this co-production with re:Naissance Opera was named one of "Vancouver's Best Operas of 2017" Directed by Alan Corbishley

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Dragging Piaf

A Cinematic Theatrical Concert

This cinematic concert in 2014 and 2016 featured the music of Edith Piaf, performed by Frederik Robert, and integrated an accompanied silent film about a Vancouver drag queen whose alter ego resembled the life of the iconic French chanteuse.

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Acis + Galatea, 2017

Named "Vancouver's Best Opera"

 "...this retelling of Handel’s story was refreshing, making perfect sense of music and libretto, doing a fine job of presenting them, and introducing a concept of the opera more dramatically compelling than the original."

Webley aWaits, 2012

"Comedy walked - OK, staggered at times - arm in arm with tragedy... The front seat? That was Kris Ruston driving the energy from behind the grille of an '80s Ford pickup, part of a junk-strewn set that included a kitchen-utensil rhythm section.

Mike Youds, The Daily News

Dragging Piaf, 2016

"On its own, ninety minutes of Frederik Robert’s singing could’ve been interesting and fully entertaining … I was excited to see if the silent film could use the urgency and intensity of Robert’s live voice to spin a powerful narrative… And it did."

Satie de Paris, 2009

"Satie de Paris was poetry on stage!"

Mike Youds, The Daily News

We would like to thank our supporters!

It is with great honour that we have received funding support
from the following organizations.

Vancouver Foundation

Various Grants


In support of
Angel's Bone ('18-'22)
Acis + Galatea ('17)
Sign & Flow ('15)

Canada Council for the Arts

Digital Now
Explore & Create


In Support of
Theatre for the Ears​ ('21)​
Pilgrimage to Bach ('21)​

Province
of BC

Community Gaming 


In support of
Annual Performance Programming

Creative BC/
Amplify BC

Various Grants


In support of
Black Voices Concert ('23)
Angel's Bone ('22)
Music of the Night: 
The Concert Tour ('19)
COVID Org Support ('20) & '21)

BC Arts Council

Various Grants


In support of
Angel's Bone ('22)
Arts Impact ('22)
Pilgrimage to Bach ('21)
'Expanded Arts and Culture Resilience' ('21)

Light Killed the Beasts ('20)
Acis + Galatea ('17)
Sign & Flow ('15)
Canadian Cabaret ('09-'12)
Satie de Paris ('08)

City of Vancouver

CASC Grant


In Support of
Black Voices Concert ('23)
Theatre for the Ears ('21)