This can be a listing of live shows we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or enthusiastic about attending between July 28 and August 3, 2025. For extra of what’s occurring round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Toronto Summer time Music: Franco Fagioli: The Final Castrato
Tuesday, July 29, 7:30 p.m.
Walter Corridor, 80 Queen’s Park, $20+
Franco Fagioli, one of many most interesting countertenors of our time, joins l’Opéra Royal de Versailles beneath the baton of Stefan Plewniak this Tuesday night with a program that includes the most effective works impressed and written for the final nice castrato, Giovanni Battista Velluti. Fagioli, who’s been featured in main opera homes on the planet, together with Salzburg and Covent Backyard, is an actual deal with in a reside efficiency, particularly within the beautiful acoustic of Koerner Corridor. Come by and take refuge from the new, noisy metropolis summer season, and sink into the fantastic thing about this specific repertoire, and be mesmerized by the range and fantastic thing about the human voice. Learn our Interview with Franco Fagioli right here. Information right here.
Toronto Live performance Orchestra: Romeo & Juliet and Tales of Different Star-Crossed Lovers
Tuesday, July 29, 8 p.m.
Palais Royale Ballroom, 1601 Lakeshore Blvd., $30+
After a sold-out season opener final week, TCO presents a program weaving all-time vocal favourites from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Puccini’s La bohème, Massenet’s Werther, to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and Bernstein’s West Facet Story, that includes soloists Lynn Anoush Isnar and Colin Ainsworth. TCO’s summer season live shows at Palais Royale are an incredible mix of low-key summer season enjoyable with time-tested musical favourites by the attractive lakeside. TCO’s give attention to making classical music accessible and fulfilling to all individuals is a crucial one — as sacred as the humanities could also be, we should do not forget that the humanities exist merely to convey magnificence into everybody’s life, with out the inflexible wall that always exists, particularly within the classical music scene. If the thought of summer season breeze over a straightforward glass of a favorite drink, with passionate reside classical music tickles your fancy, get your tickets quickly and head to the lakeside for this summer season weeknight gem. Information right here.
Worldwide Congress of Voice Lecturers: Lauren Margison in Live performance
Saturday, August 2, 7:30 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $48+
The Worldwide Congress of Voice Lecturers convention, July 31 – August 3, invitations all singers, voice lecturers, artists, and faculties to share and construct additional information and methods for the way forward for voice training, and it occurs each 4 years. For this yr, it’s hosted in Toronto by three establishments: the Nationwide Affiliation of Lecturers of Singing, the Royal Conservatory, and the School of Music, College of Toronto. This live performance highlights the intention of the convention: to showcase the artistry that the ICVT goals to create and help. Margison, a well-known face in Toronto — she is an alumna of the Canadian Opera Firm Ensemble Studio, in addition to quite a few performances through the TD Toronto Jazz Competition, and the Seashores Jazz Competition — is a good option to convey a blended program of classical, jazz, and pop favs. And an incredible option to grace a Saturday night. Information right here.
Caledon Music Competition: Tune and Dance
Saturday, August 2, 7:15 p.m.
Davis Household Farm, 15770 Mountainview Rd, Caledon East, ON L7C 2V2, $45, low cost tickets out there
Davis Household Farm, one of many largest sunflower fields and a favorite place for visible social media followers, hosts the Caledon Music Competition this Saturday night. A mixture of instrumental and vocal numbers together with works of Piaf, Jacques Brel, Antonio Carlos Jobim, to Piazzolla and Arvo Pärt, this 90-minute program is an effective way to rejoice the riches of Ontario summer season. Get out to the nation and take a breather and recharge with the fantastic sunflowers — it’s a really gorgeous place. Learn our Interview with Caldeon Music Competition Creative Director Terry Lim right here. Information right here.
Toronto Summer time Music: TSM Finale
Saturday, August 2, 7:30 p.m.
Walter Corridor, 80 Queen’s Park, $20+
After so many nice applications involving visiting visitor artists, mentors, pageant fellows, and the Neighborhood Program, since July tenth, Toronto Summer time Music presents its last live performance of the pageant on this Saturday night. Come out and help this superb group of people that have so generously shared their ardour and musical ideas, and bid them a farewell — until subsequent yr! Information right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘severe’ music research when she determined to keep away from attending medical faculty. At present working within the area of classical music, recording, and Korean-English interpretation, she tends to get her nostril soiled in many alternative issues within the metropolis. Cecilia holds a DMA in Piano Efficiency from the College of Nebraska-Lincoln.
