This can be a record of live shows we’re attending, wishing we might attend, or desirous about attending between October 13 and 19, 2025. For extra of what’s taking place round Toronto, go to our calendar right here.
Opera Atelier: The Magic Flute
Wednesday, October 15, 7:30 p.m., Thursday, October 16, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, October 17, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, October 19, 2:30 p.m.
The Elgin & Winter Backyard Theatres, 189 Yonge St., $45+
A queen of the evening who sings that sky-high F with notoriously troublesome coloratura passages. Children on quests, in search of love. Common brotherhood, and the everlasting query of excellent vs evil. Dragon. Probably the most beloved operas of all occasions, the Magic Flute, returns to the stage with Opera Atelier this week, with full costumes, elaborate stage units, and dancers. Recognized for his or her elegant and complicated visible impression and good, stylistic musicianship, OA’s Magic Flute might be nice enjoyable for all ages to attend, particularly beneath the educated and charismatic David Fallis’ baton. Let Marshal Pynkoski, stage director, and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg, choreographer, fill out your night with proficient singers, dancers, and musicians, and a fantasy — it’s good to dream, and to purpose excessive, particularly when the world appears to be in perpetual battle and hellfire. Learn our Interview with Marshall Pynkoski right here. Information right here.
Royal Conservatory of Music: Chris Thile
Wednesday, October 15, 7 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $60+
Thile defies genres and kinds. At simply 31, he was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship (2012), and together with a couple of Grammy awards, Thile was named BBC’s Folks Musician of the 12 months (2007). He carried on the custom of A Prairie House Companion, because the host (2016-2020) of one of the vital beloved radio applications in NPR’s historical past, he’s jammed with Edgar Meyer, Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, and different musical giants, recorded and toured with the folks band the Punch Brothers, and Nickel Creek — he even launched a solo Bach album with Nonesuch (2013), which grew to become an immediate traditional (quantity 2 is due this coming November 7, already producing a lot anticipation). The person is clearly a genius. Come out and expertise Thile’s chameleon versatility and sheer musical brilliance with a program that can function all issues that curiosity him — from Bach, to folks, and improvisation. To not be missed. Information right here.
Royal Conservatory of Music: Matthias Goerne, Baritone with Daniil Trifonov, Piano
Thursday, October 16, 7 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $70
Because the falling of nightfall inches earlier, and the sensible yellow daylight of summer season fades into pale gold, two of one of the best musicians of our time, Goerne and Trifonov, convey us the depth and pathos of Schubert’s best work: Winterreise, Op. 89. The turnaround from the fullness of summer season into the decaying, hole sorrow of winter is all the time painful, and inevitable. This explicit wanderer’s journey with a damaged coronary heart, piano and voice at equal standing, is instructed in lots of scenes — every track with a whole story, a universe inside them. Within the age of easy-access recordings and streaming, maybe it’s much more needed to listen to these tales instructed by actual individuals, in actual time. Goerne and Trifonov’s mastery of their devices and their musical excellency guarantees an amazing night — if tinged with inexorable disappointment — with the sensible pleasure that’s the reason for such sorrow. Information right here.
Toronto Chamber Choir: Tempus Imperfectum
Saturday, October 18, 3:30 p.m.
Church of the Redeemer, $ 40/30/5 — pay what you would like
Lucas Harris and the Toronto Chamber Choir brings music of Ockeghem, Lassus, John Cage, Pete Seeger, and others, for this leisurely Saturday afternoon. TCC’s live shows are meticulously ready, and the exploration of the theme of time and its manipulation is a captivating topic, particularly when most of us are working round, chasing the end-tail of that elusive time. However what’s time good for, if it doesn’t enable us to stay via it? Come and fill your time with TCC, with sound, ideas, and music. Information right here.
Toronto Consort: Les Arts Florissants: Gesualdo Passione
Saturday, October 18
Knox School Chapel, College of Toronto, 59 St. George St., $50
Probably the greatest interval ensembles of the world, taking part in one of the vital vibrant and celebrated early composers, Gesualdo, makes this live performance a must-attend. Gesualdo’s personal life was filled with drama — a second son of Prince of Venosa, in a pressured marriage (as his elder brother died, Gesulado was pushed into marriage at age 19), his spouse’s affair led him to the bloody homicide of each her and her lover; the general public uproar, the safety from the Italian energy gamers (Gesualdo’s mom was a niece of a pope, and one in all his uncles was an precise saint — Saint Charles Borromeo), and certainly his complete life, is mirrored within the six books of madrigals, of unhinged concord and excessive chromaticism. Drenched in emotional peaks and valleys, and appreciable wealth, Gesulado was in a position to create music as he wished. His Passione, written for the final three days of the Holy Week, as Jesus of Nazareth faces his tragic finish as a human being, via the experience of Les Arts Florissants, guarantees an exquisite night. Information right here.
Piano Lunaire: COMPOSERS IN PLAY XV: Ink from the Defend
Saturday, October 18, doorways 7 p.m., live performance 8 p.m.
TD Music Corridor, 178 Victoria Avenue (4th Ground), $52.70
Pianists Anthony de Mare and Adam Sherkin come collectively for this (almost) all-Canadian program. The all-new music program options works by Canadian composers Vivian Fung, Ann Southam, Heather Schmidt, Jared Miller, Linda Catlin Smith and Rodney Sharman, together with the world premiere of a brand new association of a chunk by Andrew Staniland, and music by three American composers: Steve Reich, Conrad Tao, and Kevin Places. Sherkin has been curating the Piano Lunaire sequence with live shows in Toronto and New York Metropolis for years, bringing consideration to music and artists on each side of the border. Anthony de Mare is on the school of the Manhattan Faculty of Music, and each artists are champions of recent music. They’ve curated a program of works for one and two keyboards, and 4 of the composers might be current for the live performance. Information right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘severe’ music research when she determined to keep away from attending medical college. Presently working within the area of classical music, recording, and Korean-English interpretation, she tends to get her nostril soiled in many various issues within the metropolis. Cecilia holds a DMA in Piano Efficiency from the College of Nebraska-Lincoln.
