City Opera’s Nigredo Hotel: Win a Date Night

Comments 76 by Rebecca Bollwitt Tuesday, September 4th, 2018 — 2:20pm PDT

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City Opera Vancouver presents the astonishing and macabre operatic thriller, Nigredo Hotel, September 20 to 22, 2018 at The Cultch Historic Theatre.

This one-act chamber opera directed by Alan Corbishley, with music by Nic Gotham and libretto by distinguished Canadian author and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald, tells the tale of an encounter between a beautiful but crazed hotelier and a brain surgeon who seeks refuge after a traumatic car accident. Internationally renowned opera stars Tyler Duncan and Sarah Vardy will perform a brilliant Jungian-inspired combat between two of the most unusual characters in 20th century opera, backed by a four-player jazz combo.

Tyler Duncan & Sarah Vardy. Photo: Michelle Koebke, Diamond’s Edge Photography.

City Opera’s Nigredo Hotel

When: September 20 to 22, 2018
Where: The Cultch Historic Theatre (1895 Venables St, Vancouver)
Tickets: Available online now from $22.25

“Part psychological thriller and mystery, both sarcastic and sweet, witty and strange, Nigredo Hotel is nothing like City Opera Vancouver has ever presented before.”

The story follows Raymond who escapes to a decrepit hotel after his car crash. He fears he may have harmed a child. Stressed and confused, Raymond is further disoriented by Sophie’s strange and combative nature and the fact that she seems to know a great deal about him.

Raymond’s descent into crisis is depicted through MacDonald’s brilliant libretto full of riddles and half-remembered stories. She draws on Carl Jung’s “nigredo,” a theory that souls are led to suffer through a dark night to reach enlightenment, and revelations of the dream state.

Gotham’s haunting score bridges the continent between jazz and classical music, combining traditional operatic components of overture, recitatives, and arias with improvisational jazz rhythms and harmonies.

The unsettling nature of Raymond’s madness is punctuated with an extensive use of bass instruments and percussion, which evoke the brooding quality of film noir. Although categorized as an opera, Nigredo Hotel is often described as a dramatic jazz piece that will appeal to lovers of both genres alike. This balance crescendos to lyrical heights in Raymond and Sophie’s beautiful duet For Love is strong as Death.

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Win a Date Night

I have an awesome prize pack to give away so you can enjoy City Opera’s Nigredo Hotel in style. The lucky winner will receive two tickets to the performance on Saturday, September 22, 2018 at 8:00pm at The Cultch, a $75 gift certificate for dinner for two at Sopra Sotto Restaurant (1510 Commercial Drive), and a $50 gift certificate for a bouquet of flowers from The Flowerbox (1319 Commercial Drive).

City Opera Prize Pack

Here’s how you can enter to win:

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I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 8:00am on Monday, September 10, 2018.

Update The winner is Tabby72!