City Opera Vancouver is set to premiere “Chinatown” on September 13-17, 2022 at the Vancouver Playhouse. The opera by librettist Madeleine Thien and composer Alice Ping Yee Ho, while a Western opera, will employ traditional Chinese themes and sounds. Opening at a time of anti-Asian racism, the opera represents a struggle to preserve Chinatown and the need to tell the {…}

The City Opera Vancouver has postponed an upcoming production.  The company announced that due to COVID-19 it was postponing the premiere of “Chinatown,” by the composer Alice Ping Yee Ho and librettist Madeleine Thien, from September 2021 to September 2022. In a statement, the company said “Chinatown” is planned for its world premiere in September 2022, at the 668-seat Vancouver {…}