Charles Barber, Nancy Hermiston & Ian Rye on Vancouver Opera’s vital role in the West Coast opera community
“Like everyone else,” says , Conductor and Artistic Director of , which commissions and presents chamber opera in venues around Vancouver, including the troubled Downtown Eastside, “I want to see Vancouver Opera thrive and prosper. They have been was the first professional opera I ever saw. It changed my life.” COV‘s latest project is an opera about the history, people, and culture of Vancouver’s Chinatown.
