Select seats for WEST SIDE STORY on sale now!

That's right! Seats for select performances of West Side Story are NOW ON SALE! Here are the details:


If you are a subscriber to VO's 2011-2012 Season:

You can buy additional single tickets to ALL performances of West Side Story. Those performance dates are:

Saturday, Oct. 22
Sunday, Oct 23 matinee
Tuesday, Oct 25
Wednesday, Oct 26
Thursday, Oct 27
Friday, Oct 28
Saturday, Oct 29 matinee
Saturday, Oct 29 evening

If you are NOT a subscriber to VO's 2011-2012 Season:

You can buy tickets to SELECT performances of West Side Story. Those performance dates are:

Sunday, Oct 23 matinee
Wednesday, Oct 26
Friday, Oct 28
Saturday, Oct 29 matinee

Non-subscribers will be able to buy tickets to the rest of the performances starting July 4.

Tickets are available exclusively through the VO Ticket Centre: online (the select performances only) or by phone 604-683-0222.
Phones are open Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm.
You can also visit us in person during those hours at 835 Cambie Street, second floor.

Matinees start at 1:30pm and evening performances start at 7:30pm.


Family Packs! We have special Family Packs!
Purchase 2 matinee tickets and up to get 2 children's tickets for $35 each!

Family Packs are only available for matinee performances. Children must be 18 years old or younger. Available for seats in sections A through E.

If you're a subscriber and would like to switch your tickets to a matinee, you can also purchase up to 2 children's tickets for $35.

Look at all those perks for subscribers! Want to be a subscriber too? Call our friendly Ticket Centre staff at 604-683-0222!

VO To Open next Season With Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story

In a departure from its traditional programming of strictly operatic fare, Vancouver Opera has announced its 2011-2012 season will open with the Leonard Bernstein classic musical theatre West Side Story, playing October 22 to 29. Playing the star-crossed lovers from the rival Sharks and Jets gangs will be 28-year-old Italian-Canadian soprano Lucia Cesaroni as Maria and Canadian tenor Colin Ainsworth as her love interest Tony.

Ontario native Cleopatra Williams, fresh off the cast of Jersey Boys in Toronto, sings Maria’s friend Anita, and Torontonian Dani Jazzar, who has danced for the Europe MTV Video Music Awards, sings the Sharks’ captain Bernardo, a role he’s performed many times. Also appearing will be Scott Augustine, last onstage with the VO in Nixon in China, as the Jets’ leader Riff.

VO general director James Wright promises in a news release that the first staging of Bernstein’s classic musical by a Canadian opera company will be “big and bold and new, using the original Jerome Robbins choreography that we all love, colourful sets and costumes, and a 30-piece orchestra.”

To read more from Georgia Straight, click here.

West Side Story To Open Vancouver Opera's New Season

Our production will be big and bold and new, using the original Jerome Robbins choreography that we all love, colourful sets and costumes, and a thirty-piece orchestra, all in service of Bernstein’s timeless and riveting music.

To read more from the Vancouver Sun, click here.