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Beowulf: The Epic in Performance feat. Benjamin Bagby, voice and harp

Beowulf: The Epic in Performance feat. Benjamin Bagby, voice and harp

Saturday January 11, 2020 | 7:30PM Vancouver Playhouse

“Hwaet!” commands the storyteller. Listen! And tremble at this fearsome tale! A millennium or more has passed since the superhero Beowulf appeared in the annals of epic poetry, yet the legend of his bare-handed conquest of the terrifying Grendel endures. As one of the world’s leading practitioners of historically informed music and theater, Benjamin Bagby dramatizes the awe-inspiring poem in the original Anglo-Saxon, while simultaneously accompanying himself on medieval harp. With English supertitles.

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Schubert – Death and the Maiden and works by Mozart

Schubert – Death and the Maiden and works by Mozart

Sunday March 10, 2019 | 3:00PM (Pre-concert talk at 2:15PM) Vancouver Playhouse

Formed in 2005, the Chiaroscuro Quartet comprises Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova Spanish violinist Pablo Hernán Benedí, Swedish violist Emilie Hörnlund, and French cellist Claire Thirion. Dubbed “a trailblazer for the authentic performance of High Classical chamber music” by Gramophone, this international ensemble performs music of the Classical and early Romantic periods on gut strings with historical bows. The quartet’s unique sound (described in The Observer as “a shock to the ears of the best kind”) is highly acclaimed by audiences and critics all over Europe.

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Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra – J.S. Bach: The Circle of Creation

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra – J.S. Bach: The Circle of Creation

Friday January 25, 2019 | 7:30PM Vancouver Playhouse

EMV presents Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in J.S. Bach: The Circle of Creation — a celebration of the genius of Bach and the latest multi-media creation by Alison Mackay, the creator of phenomenally successful Tafelmusik productions seen around the world including The Galileo Project and House of Dreams. J.S. Bach: The Circle of Creation combines text, music, and stunning projected video and images to explore the world of the artisans — papermakers, violin carvers, string spinners, and performers — who helped J.S. Bach realize his musical genius. This all-Bach programme is performed by Tafelmusik musicians entirely from memory.

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Handel’s Messiah

Handel’s Messiah

Friday December 1, 2017 and Saturday December 2, 2017 | 7:30PM (Pre-concert talk at 6:45)Vancouver Playhouse

Join the PBO, Vancouver Cantata Singers and conductor Alexander Weimann for EMV’s very first presentation of Handel’s greatest known work in the intimate atmosphere of the Vancouver Playhouse.

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Le Mozart Noir – Symphonies by Chevalier Saint-Georges, Mozart & Haydn

Le Mozart Noir – Symphonies by Chevalier Saint-Georges, Mozart & Haydn

Saturday February 4, 2017 | 8:00pm (Pre-concert documentary screening 6:30pm - featuring Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra)Vancouver Playhouse

One of the greatest composers of the early classical period was Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier Saint-Georges. Known as “Le Mozart Noir”, he was one of the earliest musicians of the European classical tradition to have African ancestry. Incredibly, this son of a slave overcame adversities of class, race, and prejudice to become a major musical star all over Europe inspired both Mozart and Haydn. Today, he is almost entirely forgotten.

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Handel’s Apollo e Dafne

Handel’s Apollo e Dafne

Friday March 18, 2016 | 7:30pmThe Vancouver Playhouse

When public performances of opera were banned in Rome by papal edicts in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, opera audiences and composers turned to the dramatic cantata for their fix of lust, madness and death.

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Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra – House of Dreams

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra – House of Dreams

Friday March 4, 2016 | 7:30pm (Pre-concert talk at 6:45pm)The Vancouver Playhouse

An imaginative multi-media concert designed by Alison Mackay for Canada’s revered and treasured Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. A magical journey to the meeting places of baroque art and music – five European homes where exquisite works by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi and Marais were played against a backdrop of paintings by Vermeer, Canaletto, and Watteau.

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