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Music review: Artful staging heightens Flight’s sense of airport limbo

Vancouver Opera production balances heart and absurd humour, with a third act that gets full liftoff

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 10, 2025VANCOUVER OPERA, Vancouver Opera

At Bach Ties the Knot, German soprano Dorothee Mields explores the Baroque master's wedding music

Early Music Vancouver program with Pacific Baroque Orchestra includes a “Fictive Wedding Cantata” that she’s painstakingly compiled from the composer’s lesser-known works

BIG BANG Festival delivers live music to local kids

Music on Main and the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre bring the Belgian celebration of sound for young audiences to Vancouver

Vetta Chamber Music presents the Four Jays live in concert, March 7 to 10

Joan Blackman, Jane Hayes, Julia Nolan, and Jodi Proznick play impressionist, 20th-century, jazz, and tango works

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 7, 2025Partner Content, Vetta Chamber Music

Vancouver music scene celebrates Valentine's Day with romantic concerts

Offerings from the Vancouver Bach Family of Choirs, the VSO, Early Music Vancouver, and more take place on February 14 and 15

Seamus Blake, Feven Kidane, the Ha Siblings, and more grace the stage at Jazz at the Bolt

This year’s festival features an electric range of revival shows

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 6, 2025Jazz at the Bolt, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Feven Kidane, Seamus Blake

Chor Leoni brings PopCappella 3D to the Rio Theatre, March 7 to 9

Program blends pop-music choral arrangements with immersive 3D visuals

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 6, 2025Partner Content, Chor Leoni, CHOR LEONI, Rio Theatre

Rigoletto, Così fan tutte, and La Bohème announced for Vancouver Opera 2025-26 season

Jonathan Darlington, Tracy Dahl, Michael Chioldi, and Glynis Leyshon are just some of the names on the roster

OPERA, MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 4, 2025Vancouver Opera

Folk connections run deep for singer and banjo master Kaïa Kater

The artist, who grew up amid music fests, creates rich lyrics drawing on the personal and political

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 4, 2025Blueshore at CapU, folk

Tap dancer Caleb Teicher and pianist Conrad Tao compare and contrast rhythms in Counterpoint

At the Chan Centre, the New York City–based duo take on George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, Schoenberg’s “V. Walzer”, and more

Friends of Chamber Music presents the Schumann Quartet in concert, February 11

Making its Vancouver debut, the Cologne, Germany-based ensemble has earned critical acclaim around the globe

MUSIC, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithFebruary 4, 2025Friends of Chamber Music, Schumann Quartet

Elektra performs enchanting composition The Lost Words: A Spell Book, March 8 and 9

Immersive work by 10 composers draws inspiration from bestselling book by nature writer Robert Macfarlane and illustrator Jackie Morris

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 4, 2025Partner Content, Elektra, ELEKTRA

Germany's Notos Quartet makes Friends of Chamber Music debut, March 2

Piano quartet to play works by Mozart, Schumann, and William Walton

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 3, 2025Partner Content, Friends of Chamber Music, Notos Quartet

Christine Jensen brings big-band grandeur to BlueShore at CapU, February 28

Saxophonist-composer draws inspiration from her B.C. upbringing for performance with CapU Jazz Studies students and faculty members

MUSICStir VancouverFebruary 3, 2025Partner Content, Blueshore at CapU, BlueShore at CapU, Capilano University

Tradition and innovation meet as Amir Amiri Ensemble comes to the Chan Centre, February 7

The group’s namesake is a master of the santur who draws on Persian classical styles as well as everything from jazz to the avant-garde

MUSICJanet SmithFebruary 3, 2025Chan Centre, Amir Amiri, CHan Centre for the Performing Arts

Burnaby Lyric Opera brings Le Nozze di Figaro to the Shadbolt, February 22 to March 1

Led by stage director Richard Berg and music director Richard Epp, Mozart’s comedic opera features an abundance of outrageous scenarios

Director Morris Panych connects with Flight opera's existential airport limbo

At Vancouver Opera, the theatre legend and set designer Ken MacDonald bring artfully absurd touches to story of a refugee stuck in a terminal

MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 30, 2025Vancouver Opera, VANCOUVER OPERA, Morris Panych, Homepage feature

Festival du Bois unveils lineup for 36th edition at Mackin Park, March 7 to 9

Artists on the program include Yves Lambert et le Grand Orchestre, Franco-Ontarian rapper LeFLOFRANCO, and more

FESTS, MUSICJanet SmithJanuary 30, 2025Festival du Bois, Mackin Park, Maillardville

Vancouver Cantata Singers present ROAM with tap dancer Danny Nielsen, March 1

Program inspired by travel features folk songs from the U.K., Nordic countries, North America, and South America

MUSICStir VancouverJanuary 30, 2025Partner Content, Vancouver Cantata Singers, Danny Nielsen

Stir Q&A: Chimerik 似不像's Caroline MacCaull and Sammy Chien sound off on Inner Sublimity

Copresented by PuSh Festival and Vancouver Art Gallery, the genre-bending work merges dance, new media, and video with immersive sound resonators

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