Vancouver Opera is the second largest performing arts organization in British Columbia and the largest opera company in western Canada. It performs in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre accompanied currently by the Vancouver Opera Orchestra, one of two specialized opera orchestras in Canada (the other being Toronto’s Canadian Opera Company). Vancouver Opera mounts four productions a year.
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“Opera once was an important social instrument—especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.”
—Luciano Berio (b. 1925)