Things To Do: 6 can't-miss Vancouver arts events this week, April 19 to 25
Editor’s choice
Baroque Beauty
In his short life, 17th-century composer Henry Purcell wielded all the major vocal and instrumental genres of his time—sacred and otherwise. When Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin and nine-piece ensemble Les Boréades de Montréal perform Works by Henry Purcell, the program will include songs and airs from his English semi-operas King Arthur, The Fairy Queen, and The Comical History of Don Quixote, as well as the lament from his only full opera, Dido and Aeneas. It’s a chance to revel in the talent of a master dubbed Orpheus Brittanicus for his expressivity—and to find out why Opera News has called the charismatic Gauvin “the Queen of baroque opera”. The much-anticipated collaboration with Vancouver Opera brings Early Music Vancouver’s season to a final flourish.
Karina Gauvin and Les Boréades de Montréal perform Works by Henry Purcell at Christ Church Cathedral on Friday (April 21).
High five
Five events you just can’t miss this week
Murray Perahia
Seriously: one of the world’s greatest pianists hits the Vancouver Recital Society.
April 23 at the Chan Centre
The Planets: An HD Odyssey
Beam me up, Scotty: the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra conjures Holst’s epic work with HD video from NASA.
April 24 at the Orpheum
Vertical Influences
Prepare to be awed: hip, artfully acrobatic ice-skating like you’ve never seen it.
To April 30 at Britannia Ice Rink
Charlie Demers
One of our city’s smart-funniest observers of life and politics.
April 20 to 22 at the Comedy MIX
The Shape of a Girl
Joan MacLeod’s harrowing one-teen play about bullying, based on the Reena Virk tragedy.
April 26 to 29 at Pacific Theatre
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