New Initiatives
City Opera has to date offered several lecture-demos, and recitals featuring City Opera artists, at numerous neighbourhood and service institutions. These events have been given in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 across Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, at the Carnegie Centre, at Roedde House in the west end, at Italian Day 2010, 2011 and 2012 on Commercial Drive, at the Italian Cultural Centre, at the Nikkei National Centre, in the Jewish Community Centre, on Granville Island on several occasions, in several years of the Heart of the City Festival in the DTES, and in both years of the Fearless and the Homeground festivals. In November 2010 they began a new opera recital series at Minoru Chapel in Richmond, B.C. They have been broadcast widely across Vancouver Shaw Cable television systems. In October 2007 City Opera produced Canada's first Sing-Along Carmina Burana, to great success. In February 2009 and 2010, City Opera participated in Vancouver's new HomeGround Festival, featuring artists from every discipline. In May 2009, City Opera produced the first in a series of New Canadian Chamber Opera workshops. This event, with twelve guest artists and recorded on DVD, workshopped the new chamber opera Sea Change, with music by Constantine Caravasillis of Toronto, and libretto by Nora Kelly.
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