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Digital Concert | Mozart's Requiem Available to stream FREE or by donation https://youtu.be/iMPeBXbz36A Want to watch a specific movement? Watch the playlist version of the concert. https://youtu.be/18IB_A0jC4U Artists: Magali Simard-Galdès, soprano;...
A bold and ambitious fully staged production of Monteverdi’s landmark opera L’Orfeo. When Orfeo’s beloved wife Euridice dies suddenly on the night of their wedding, he decides to journey deep into the underworld to bring her back, equipped only with the power of his music.
With a dozen singers on stage, an orchestra full of rarely heard 17th century instruments, and the incredible beauty of titular star Marc Mauillon’s voice, L‘Orfeo promises to be a truly special event.
Bach Dances is a world premiere contemporary dance production conceived by award-winning choreographer and opera stage director Idan Cohen. A co-production between Ne.Sans Opera and Dance, The Dance Centre and Early Music Vancouver, the work reimagines Bach’s first three cello suites as a powerful theatrical experience of live music and contemporary dance.
A recital of Bach’s beautiful solo organ works, performed by PBO Director and acclaimed organist Alexander Weimann.
Acclaimed vocalist Marc Mauillon and harpist Angélique Mauillon take you on a journey through the music of Renaissance Florence and Paris, to discover the origins and early evolution of the operatic form.
This concert probes the enduring paradox of love and suffering, pairing John Dowland’s seven iconic pavans with songs from the 17th and even 20th centuries that reflect on music’s cathartic power and its remarkable ability to console, heal, and lift us up.
Rising medieval ensemble COMTESSA present a program that offers a rare glimpse into the vibrant musical culture of the British isles from 1150 to 1300. The influence of Celtic folk songs and dances, troubadour music, and plainchant is evident in these pieces, which often employ themes of nature and allegory.
Bartione Tyler Duncan and pianist Erika Switzer present Franz Schubert’s masterful song cycle Die schöne Müllerin. Within this tragic tale, are some of Schubert’s most beguiling melodies.
Songline: Musical Hike, is a unique and intimate opportunity to experience both the inherent music of nature, and the ways in which nature transforms and enriches music. Participants join Artist-in-Residence Marc Mauillon as he sings selections from his album for solo voice, Songline. Audience members journey together through the forest, pausing at intervals to experience the expressive power of the unaccompanied voice among the trees.
Violinist Alan Choo, cellist Jaap ter Linden, and pianist David Breitman present some of Beethoven and Schubert’s most beautiful trio compositions, on period instruments that bring these pieces to new life.
Guest director Rachel Podger leads the Pacific Baroque Orchestra through Vivaldi’s best-known concertos, which revolutionized ideas about what orchestral music could achieve.
This programme features the premiere of Snow Skills, a newly commissioned work by composer Peter Hannan that blends humans with electronics, and the past with the present. Stories unfold through Renaissance letters and speech set against contemporary digital transmissions, performed by a small vocal ensemble, with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra on period instruments and electronic tracks.
