Vancouver Opera announces 2024-25 65th-anniversary season with groovy '60s look
Die Fledermaus, Flight, and Madama Butterfly are on the roster
VANCOUVER OPERA has unveiled a 65th-anniversary season that spans Johann Strauss II’s bubbly comic operetta Die Fledermaus, Jonathan Dove’s contemporary Flight, and Giacomo Puccini’s eternally popular Madama Butterfly for 2024-25.
To mark the occasion, the VO unveiled a groovy trio of swinging-sixties posters for the shows.
Die Fledermaus kicks off the season in October, with Arts Club Theatre artistic director Ashlie Corcoran returning to direct her first production at the VO since Magic Flute in 2023; Vancouver Opera music director Jacques Lacombe takes the podium.
The celebrated Vancouver creative director-design team of Morris Panych and Ken MacDonald will bring their vision to Flight, based on the true story of an Iranian refugee trapped by red tape in Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport for an unbelievable 16 years. Anyone who knows the pair’s theatre work will see why the contemporary opera is a good fit: The Guardian has praised the way it “shuttles deftly between humour and profundity”. Leslie Dala, last seen by Vancouver Opera audiences helming The Flying Dutchman in 2023, conducts.
The anniversary wraps with Madama Butterfly, under the baton of Lacombe for an extended five-show engagement that boasts Tokyo-born soprano Yasko Sato in her VO/Canadian debut as Cio-Cio-San.
Vancouver Opera has also announced its free and family-friendly Opera in the Park will take place July 14 at Deer Lake Park, featuring a range of duets, arias, and more from VO’s 2024-2025; Lacombe conducts.
Single tickets for the season go on sale July 2, with subscribers having until May 17 to renew. Find more details at vancouveropera.ca.
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