About Us
Specializing in the performance of small-scale, musico-dramatic works, Players & Singers is a Vancouver-based company that presents productions ranging from operatic favourites to obscure masterworks. Integrating music with theatrical elements and audience interactivity, the company mounts their innovative performances in the intimate setting of Hycroft Manor's elegant Edwardian ballroom.
Players & Singers was founded in 2017 by Kevin Zakresky, conductor of the National Geographic Symphony For Our World and past conductor of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses, the Prince George Symphony, and Pacifica Singers.
2020/21 Season
Players & Singers holds the safety of its performers and patrons as the highest priority. In the midst of our unprecedented circumstances surrounding COVID-19, the Board of Directors and Music Director Kevin Zakresky have made the difficult decision to forego the scheduling of events for Fall 2020, with any subsequent productions contingent on compliance with health and safety regulations.
We dearly miss making live music together and will closely monitor the continuing developments in the hope of resuming productions in early 2021.
We dearly miss making live music together and will closely monitor the continuing developments in the hope of resuming productions in early 2021.
Artistic Leadership
KEVIN ZAKRESKY
Music Director
ARIANA BARER
Choreographer
CONTACT
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Past News & Events
Set in Victorian England, Benjamin Britten’s The Little Sweep tells the story of a poor boy who is forced to work as a sweep and finds himself getting stuck in the chimney of a grand mansion. Fortunately for him, there are children in the house who come to his aid. Complete with interactive scenes and […]
For 17th-Century England the Madrigal was all the rage. This style of 4- or 5-part vocal music, imported from Italy in the volume Musica Transalpina, became so popular in Britain that they started to write some in their own language. Featuring works by Weelkes, Gibbons, Wilbye, Morley and more.
The greatest masterpiece of the English Baroque, Dido and Aeneas has some of the most wonderful characters and arias in the operatic repertoire. Based on the Virgil epic, the story recounts the brief courtship between Queen Dido of Carthage and Prince Aeneas of Troy. October 21, 2018, 3pm & 8pm. Gallery Photo credit: Diamond’s […]
Henry Purcell’s unmannerly masque, Timon of Athens, alongside drinking songs, dance, and wine. June 24, 2018, 3pm and 8pm.
Click here to read Vancouver Sun’s David Gordon Duke on Bacchanalia (June 24, 2018).
Players and Singers’ Venus and Adonis is a gender-playful production of the earliest surviving British opera. This ground-breaking work was composed in 1683 by John Blow, with Anne Kingsmill as librettist. The opera is rarely performed today, and in keeping with an exploration of unfamiliar territory, our staging features both soloists and chorus members swapping genders. January […]