Opera Speaks will return to Vancouver Opera on April 22nd. Join panelists in person for this free discussion themed around Creative Adaptation. This lively 90-minute dialogue centres on the nature of adaptation in support of the upcoming production of HMS Pinafore.
Review: Vancouver Opera s choice of The Music Shop was a good one The Music Shop is a deliberate trifle, three-quarters of an hour of silliness, but elegantly written in a slyly evocative conservative modern idiom
Author of the article: David Gordon Duke
Publishing date: Mar 14, 2021 • March 14, 2021 • 2 minute read • Amanda Weatherall was at her best as a demented Valkyrie in the Vancouver Opera s The Music Shop. Photo by Mike Southworth /jpg
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On Saturday evening Vancouver Opera offered the digital and Canadian premiere of Richard Wargo’s 1993 short comic opera The Music Shop, in a staging designed to showcase the talents of a sextet from this year’s crop of Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists.