Summer Festival 2026
Monteverdi’s Orfeo
A bold and ambitious fully staged production of Monteverdi’s landmark opera L’Orfeo. When Orfeo’s beloved wife Euridice dies suddenly on the night of their wedding, he decides to journey deep into the underworld to bring her back, equipped only with the power of his music.
With a dozen singers on stage, an orchestra full of rarely heard 17th century instruments, and the incredible beauty of titular star Marc Mauillon’s voice, L‘Orfeo promises to be a truly special event.
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Summer Festival 2026
Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons
Guest director Rachel Podger leads the Pacific Baroque Orchestra through Vivaldi’s best-known concertos, which revolutionized ideas about what orchestral music could achieve.
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
2026-2027 Season
A French Baroque Christmas with Ensemble Correspondances
Written for the holy night of Christmas, Charpentier’s Midnight Mass has travelled the world. Based on traditional French Noëls, this music offers pleasure to everyone: be it through the joy of hearing a familiar tune, or of marveling at its extraordinary craftsmanship. The very simplicity of the original songs lends the entire Mass a cheerful character and a transparency that is anything but shallow, speaking instead in a language that was once profoundly universal.
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
The Mother Tree
by T. Patrick Carrabré, Amanda Forsythe & Pacific Baroque Orchestra
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