City Opera Vancouver Presents MISSING Dates, Nov. 2017

Please find below the dates for the 2017 premiere of our next commission, the chamber opera MISSING.

• libretto by Marie Clements

• music by Brian Current

• set in Vancouver and along the Highway of Tears

MISSING tells a story everyone knows, about a woman no one remembers

NOVEMBER 2017

1 Missing, families-only premiere, 7:30 - 10:30pm, DTES

NB: this is a private, invitational event, co-produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre / The Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival. It will be led by elders, and assisted by grief counselors. Cedar brushing and smudging will be available. A Book of Remembrance will be present, and signed by all who wish. This book will thereafter travel with the opera, and its names added to by others.

3 Missing, premiere public performance, York Theatre, 8 - 10pm

5 Missing, public performance, York Theatre, 2 - 4pm

7 Missing, public performance, York Theatre, 8 - 10pm

9 Missing, public performance, York Theatre, 8 - 10pm

11 Missing, public performance, York Theatre, 8 - 10pm

12 Missing, public performance, York Theatre, 2 - 4pm HOLD

17 Missing, public performance, Baumann Centre, Victoria, 7 - 9pm

19 Missing, public performance, Baumann Centre, 4 - 6pm

21 Missing, public performance, Baumann Centre, 7 - 9pm

23 Missing, public performance, Baumann Centre, 7 - 9pm

25 Missing, public performance, Baumann Centre, 7 - 9pm

MISSING is a co-production of City Opera Vancouver and Pacific Opera Victoria.

Its public text workshops were held at the Native Education College and DTES Carnegie Centre in August 2016. Its public piano-vocal workshops will be held at the Baumann Centre for Opera in Victoria, and the Native Education College and DTES Carnegie Centre in Vancouver, in February 2017.

MISSING is made possible by an extraordinary award from The Vancouver Foundation, with generous assistance from the BC Arts Council, and the Leon Judah Blackmore Foundation.

(Credit: City Opera Vancouver Facebook)

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