An opera singer called the “Queen of Baroque,” a revered music director/conductor of three baroque orchestras, and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra merged their talents on May 6th at the Chan Centre. Marked by winged flights of operatic undulations, violins conversing

The Pemberton Ice Cap (photographing the hand-stitched panorama below) Taking helicopters to remote mountaintops, some covered in snow, ice and glacier lakes, others barren, remote, desolate and hot. Wind blowing in your face, sun beating down, rain, maybe hail. Stitching

How can we best introduce children to the splendid array of instruments in an orchestra? On an afternoon crowned with cherry blossoms and sparkling waters around Vancouver, it was this pedagogical question that eventually enabled numerous children to crowd into the

Have you ever felt like your heart filled to the brim and drained all at once? If art is meant to touch the soul, this opera lurches and grabs every inch of you and refuses to let go. Based on

This year’s Vancouver Opera Festival has a Russian White Nights theme, paying homage to the solstice festival held in St Petersburg every year. There’s plenty going on, but the two headliners are pieces that interpret important works of Russian literature. One

Those who find that the opera is an artform not meant for the masses can rejoice in Vancouver Opera and Toronto’s Canadian Stage Company and Tapestry Opera’s production of Nikolai Gogol’s 1842 short story. “The Overcoat – a musical tailoring” 

Watching “World Without Us” and “The Explanation” back to back at the Cultch, and in that order, was serendipitous. On the surface, no two plays could be further apart but in retrospect, it’s clear that they share the same core