Editorial notes, monthly guides, and features from the rich and growing classical scene in Victoria.
Cellist Bryan Cheng and pianist Silvie Cheng are joined by clarinetist James Campbell on October 24, in a programme framed by the clarinet trios of Beethoven and Brahms.
Read more →A city this size shouldn't have this much music happening in one month. Pacific Opera Victoria's Il trovatore anchors the middle, with the Cheng² Duo, James Campbell, and Joe Hisaishi's Studio Ghibli score rounding out the picks.
Read more →Victoria's 2026/27 season starts in earnest this month — the Victoria Symphony's Beethoven Seventh, a choir singing at the observatory, and a world-class pianist working through the Well-Tempered Clavier.
Read more →The Victoria Symphony fills Christ Church Cathedral and The Butchart Gardens, James Ehnes returns for the Victoria Summer Music Festival, and free recitals run all season long.
Read more →Christian Kluxen conducts Mahler's Fifth, Ballet Victoria stages Alice in Wonderland, and Cascadia Strings marks ten years — as Victoria's ensembles close out their seasons.
Read more →The Emily Carr String Quartet closes its 20th anniversary season, Pacific Opera stages Orpheus & Eurydice, and the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra marks forty years.
Read more →Victoria Baroque brings Bach's St John Passion to Christ Church Cathedral, Ensemble Caprice returns with Vivaldi, and the Byrd Ensemble sings the Flemish School.
Read more →Pacific Opera stages Puccini's Tosca at the Royal, the Victoria Symphony pairs Fauré's Requiem with the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony, and Iberian baroque organ music closes the month.
Read more →The Victoria Symphony takes on The Planets and Star Wars, Pacific Opera stages a genre-bending jazz collaboration, and Constantinople puts Bach in conversation with Persian poetry.
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The Victoria Symphony performs John Williams's score to Home Alone live to a screening of the complete film, under Giuseppe Pietraroia. Williams's wri…
📍 Royal Theatre
🎭 Victoria Symphony
Three UVic School of Music alumni return for an afternoon of chamber music spanning centuries, styles and instrumental combinations.
📍 Phillip T. Young Recital Hall
🎭 UVic School of Music
The Old Trout Puppet Workshop and POV Artistic Director Brenna Corner reimagine Humperdinck's beloved opera with towering puppets, magical creatures a…
📍 Royal Theatre
🎭 Pacific Opera Victoria (POV)
Township Classics closes its 12th season with Brahms's monumental Piano Quintet, Op. 34, played by violinists Jeremy Potts and Christi Meyers, violist…
📍 CFB Esquimalt Wardroom
🎭 Township Community Arts Council
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