Vancouver Opera season has much in store

City Opera presents Nigredo Hotel
When: Sept. 20 to 22, 8 p.m.
Where: The Cultch
Tickets and info: from $22.25. thecultch.com
Vancouver Opera’s season starter, Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow, is still a few weeks away. But both City Opera Vancouver and the Turning Point Ensemble are right off the mark with 2018/19 productions. Turning Point begins its year with the premiere of Victoria-based Rudolf Komorous’s Dada opera The Mute Canary, September 14/15/16 at SFU