City Opera of Vancouver is a professional chamber opera company founded in 2005. It was the lead company in efforts to restore Vancouver's Pantages Theatre, built by Alexander Pantages in 1907. The 650 seat building was considered to be the oldest remaining vaudeville theatre in Canada. It was listed on Heritage Canada's 2009 Top Ten Most Endangered Places List and the Vancouver Heritage Register as a heritage building. Regardless of these efforts, and widespread community support in favour of its preservation, Vancouver City Council twice voted to refuse restoration and, beginning in 2011, the structure was demolished. City Opera Vancouver now uses other proscenium houses in Metro Vancouver.
Read more about City Opera Of Vancouver: Pauline, New Initiatives, Canadian Classics, Board and Advisors, Der Kaiser Von Atlantis, Sumidagawa & Curlew River, Fallujah, Brokeback Mountain, City Opera Vancouver Online
Famous quotes containing the words city and/or opera:
“This city is neither a jungle nor the moon.... In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies. Close up, it is a fairly legible printed circuit, a transistorized labyrinth of beastly tracks, a data bank for asthmatic voice-prints.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)