Opera Etc.

Join Pacific Opera Teaching Artists Geoff and Anna for an imaginative adventure into the art of operatic stage directing!

Using live opera excerpts, participants of all ages are invited to listen, imagine, and explore what it means to bring a story to life on stage. Working together, you’ll make creative choices and develop stage directions inspired by the music, combining elements of music, drama, and leadership along the way.

Share your ideas, discover what others imagine, and watch as a professional opera singer brings your creative choices to life before your very eyes!

Join us for a special evening celebrating Found in Translation, a community-driven initiative that brings Indigenous Elders, newcomers to Canada, language speakers, and local artists together through music. Hear classical Western art songs transformed through Indigenous and newcomer languages, as familiar music takes on new meaning through translation, collaboration, and shared experience. Through performances and conversation, the evening explores the ways music and language can foster belonging, celebrate cultural knowledge, and create connections across communities.

Gather with us at the Baumann Centre for a joyful mix of holiday favourites, opera arias, art songs, and sing-alongs. From familiar melodies to beautiful vocal music, this relaxed midday recital is all about sharing songs, making memories, and enjoying the company of others.

Come to sing along, listen, or simply spend a little time together through music.

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Join Robert Holliston for Inside Opera, exploring the music, characters, and creative ideas behind Humperdinck’s beloved Hansel & Gretel. Discover how lush music, playful humour, and the imaginative puppetry of the Old Trout Puppet Workshop bring this familiar fairytale of courage, family, and a dangerously delicious gingerbread house to life.

Join Robert Holliston for Inside Opera, exploring the music, characters, and creative ideas behind Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Journey into a world of soaring arias, magical instruments, daring trials, and unexpected truths, as we explore this beloved opera’s enduring themes of love, wisdom, courage, and transformation.

Join us for an evening of songs, stories, and shared memories celebrating the rich cultural traditions of French Canada. Local singers and storytellers bring folk songs and traditional tales together with classic French repertoire, exploring the ways music and storytelling carry memories from one generation to the next.

Through familiar melodies, personal stories, and traditions passed down and shared, Raising Our Voices celebrates the connections between language, memory, music, and community.

Keep an eye on our calendar for more information for both main stage and community events!

What’s Up With Opera?

At a time when we’re questioning assumptions about the portrayal of women and minorities in all forms of cultural expression, it’s also time to think more critically about the world of opera – an art form essentially sustained by relics and values of past centuries.

Join the conversation with the operatic movers and shakers of the 21st century as they share their thoughts in frank conversations about what has to change for opera to survive.

Listening Party Podcast

Podcasts with guest artists and a curated Spotify playlist.

Join us for the Listening Party Podcast as Rebecca Hass and guests share favourite stories about the role music plays in the lives of our artists, creative team, and collaborators – and in your life as an arts lover.

After each podcast, tune in to Pacific Opera’s Spotify Playlists. A new Listening Party Playlist is added every week. Meet the people, hear the stories, experience the music!

Inside Opera

Join Robert Holliston for a series of chats with special guests about everything opera-related. Recommended for newcomers and opera aficionados alike, Inside Opera Online is insightful, friendly, and funny.

Pre-Show Lobby Talks

Enhance your opera experience with engaging Pre-Show Lobby Talks led by the insightful Robert Holliston. Delve into the fascinating background, history, and delightful anecdotes about the upcoming show at the Royal Theatre. 

For All to Hear

A space that celebrates and features diverse voices from the IBPoC (Indigenous, Black, People of Colour) community and historically marginalized or oppressed groups, offering a platform to share music and stories that matter.

Acoustic Afternoons

Grab a coffee, take a breath, and enjoy intimate video moments with some of the Pacific Opera family of artists, including short interviews, song performances and more.

Lunchbox Opera

A relaxing way to take a break and take in a bit of music and discussions with experts and artists. Settle down with your lunch or afternoon tea and enjoy a recital in your living room or home office.

Take Five with Timothy

With this video series, Pacific Opera’s Founding Artistic Director Timothy Vernon shares his inside knowledge of opera and his idiosyncratic perspective on the art form. Expect thoughtful – and off-the-wall – discussions of opera and the people who make it happen.

Handwashing Arias

Washing your hands has never been so much fun! Sing along as artists from our past and future productions perform popular arias to new words while demonstrating proper handwashing technique.

The Keynotes Collection

Relive Pacific Opera’s recent productions through video excerpts, photos, reviews, articles from our Keynotes Newsletter, and insightful Programme Notes from our stage directors and Artistic Director. Relive the magic of these productions and discover more about some of the amazing operas Pacific Opera has staged.