IndieFest 2025
IndieFest is a gathering that brings together artists & audiences from all walks of life to expand artistic practices, experience new works of art, and express creative voices.
Eurydice Fragments
Eurydice Fragments is a new contemporary reimagining of the Orphean myth that fuses powerful vocal performances, theatre, dance, extended reality, mocap, & interactive technologies. Coming 2024.
Live from the Underworld
Live From The Underworld is a series of interactive live-stream performances featuring mythological avatars brought to life by real-time motion capture technology & live opera singers.
Inferno: A Hip hop Opera
Inferno is a new hip-hop opera in development by Omari Newton and Amy Lee Lavoie. The work blends hip-hop, rap, beat boxing, sampling, R&B, and contemporary opera in celebration of IBPOC voices.
The Apocrypha Chronicles
The Apocrypha Chronicles is a groundbreaking sci-fi / documentary podcast that uses generative storytelling & audio-drama to illuminate a conversation between our present & our future.
The Queen of Carthage
A seamless blend of Baroque and contemporary song and dance, this interdisciplinary performance is a powerful reclamation of the story of Dido, The Queen of Carthage
The Queen In Me
re:Naissance is proud to present electrifying opera-theatre work The Queen In Me in Vancouver for the first time Sept 12-13th for it’s final performances and hometown debut.
IndieFest 2024
IndieFest is a gathering that brings together artists & audiences from all walks of life to expand artistic practices, experience new works of art, and express creative voices.
Chinatown
Futures: 168
168 is an new youth-led magazine initiative & collaboration between re:Naissance, Chinatown Storytelling Centre, & Blake Abbie, featuring diverse perspectives that have contributed to the rich tapestry of the Chinatown area.
Sanctuary & Storm
Sanctuary & Storm is a new opera by Tawnie Olson and Roberta Barker that premiered at IndieFest 2023. A fictional debate between the two most powerful women in Medieval Europe: Hildegard of Bingen, the Sibyl of the Rhein, and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine.
IndieFest 2023
IndieFest is a musical gathering that brings together artists & audiences from all walks of life to expand artistic practices, experience new works of art, and express creative voices.
INdieFest 2022
IndieFest 2022 featured the Imaginarium Series, the first IndieArtist Cabaret, Inferno: A Hip Hop Opera workshop, and Live from the Underworld II: Eurydice’s Calling
The Imaginarium
The Imaginarium is a new initiative that empowers IBPOC leadership on and off the stage. In 2022, The Imaginarium Series was presented at IndieFest 2022.
Angel’s Bone 2022
The Angel’s Bone Project uses an award-winning contemporary opera as a creative lens and collaborative tool to generate public conversation and awareness of the trafficking and exploitation of youth in local communities.
OrpheusVR
OrpheusVR reclaims opera’s rebellious roots using Motion Capture, Virtual Reality and Interactive Audio to usher in the next generation of musical storytelling. It’s “choose your own adventure” meets “epic opera“.
did I Just Say That?
Did I Just Say That? is a new chamber operetta by Valerie Sing Turner (librettist) and Katerina Gimon (composer). A comedy exploring the challenges women of colour face when engaging with operatic works.
Caustic Effect
Caustic Effect – An ASL Opera is a new work in creation by Monique Holt & Landon Krentz. The project explores the way language is experienced & expressed and how mythology & fairy tales shape our interactions with the world.
Mentorship Mondays
In partnership with the Association of Opera in Canada, re:Naissance Opera is proud to present Mentorship Mondays, an 8 week mentorship program for emerging producers.