Global Edmonton supports – Nuova Vocal Arts Festival

Enjoy unforgettable performances in various ways at this year’s Nuova Vocal Arts Festival.

2024 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

June 6th-9th The Al and Trish Huehn Theatre at Concordia University

When the Sun Comes Out: In a place and time where gender expression is oppressed by the state—and being gay is a death sentence—following your heart can mean risking everything. It is here that Solana finds her lost love Lilah, who is now a wife and mother.

June 6th, 7:30pm

June 8th, 2:00pm

June 9th, 2:00pm

As One: Hannah is a transgender woman; Hannah Before and Hannah After. During the scenes, Hannah discovers her gender identity and learns to love herself in a world where she is not accepted.
The opera is composed of two parts. Each part represents essential moments of Hannah’s coming of age through a series of episodes

• June 7th, 7:30pm
• June 8th, 7:30pm

Both chamber operas are Directed by Jennifer Tarver, and Conducted by Rosemary Thomson

June 13th-21st The Capitol Theatre in Fort Edmonton Park

Il barbiere di Siviglia: Bribery, deception and disguise: The Barber of Seville tells the story of two young lovers and their quest to be together. Figaro needs all his wiles to help the Count outwit Dr Bartolo and ensure true love wins the day.

• June 13th, 7:30pm
• June 15th, 7:30pm
• June 18th, 7:30pm
• June 20th, 7:30pm

Directed by Rob Herriot and Conducted by Christopher Gaudreault

A Little Night Music: Set in 1900 Sweden, A Little Night Music explores the tangled web of affairs centered around actress, Desirée Armfeldt, and the men who love her: a lawyer by the name of Fredrik Egerman and the Count Carl-Magnus Malcom.

• June 14th, 7:30pm
• June 16th, 2:00pm
• June 19th, 7:30pm
• June 21st, 7:30pm

Directed by Brian Deedrick and Music Directed by Steven Greenfield

June 22nd & 23rd The Robert Tegler Hall at Concordia University

Titanic: April 10, 1912; he RMS Titanic sets out from London on her maiden voyage, across the Atlantic. Billed as “The Largest Floating Object in The World,” the Titanic is already big news. April 15, 1912: Titanic, the “unsinkable” ship, sinks, killing over 1500 men, women and children. In a stunning chamber musical as massive as the ocean liner that shares its name, Yeston and Peter Stone’s musical, Titanic, tells the stories of the people on board the legendary steamer and the men who got them there. Spanning all classes, Titanic captures the stories from the whole range of humanity aboard the ship: from workers in the boiler room to first-class attendants, from the poorest passengers, who scraped together their life savings to purchase third-class tickets to America, to some of the wealthiest men of the Victorian age

• June 22nd, 7:30pm
• June 23rd, 2:00pm

Directed by Kim Mattice Wanat and Music Directed by Ryan Sigurdson