Vancouver Opera House

VANCOUVER OPERA HOUSE was the city's most elegant showcase for the performing arts from 1891 to 1913. It was built by the CPR on Granville St at Robson next door to the first Vancouver Hotel and featured international stars from the worlds of vaudeville, opera, drama and musical theatre. The CPR sold the building in 1911 and it was gutted by fire 2 years later. After reopening as the New Orpheum it remained in operation as a vaudeville house and then a movie theatre until the 1960s, when it was...

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