This can be a checklist of concert events we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or desirous 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 season 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 best countertenors of our time, joins l’Opéra Royal de Versailles underneath 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 earth, together with Salzburg and Covent Backyard, is an actual deal with in a stay efficiency, particularly within the beautiful acoustic of Koerner Corridor. Come by and take refuge from the recent, noisy metropolis summer time, and sink into the great thing about this specific repertoire, and be mesmerized by the range and great thing about the human voice. Learn our Interview with Franco Fagioli right here. Data 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 Aspect Story, that includes soloists Lynn Anoush Isnar and Colin Ainsworth. TCO’s summer time concert events at Palais Royale are a fantastic mix of low-key summer time enjoyable with time-tested musical favourites by the gorgeous lakeside. TCO’s concentrate on making classical music accessible and satisfying to all individuals is a vital one — as sacred as the humanities could also be, we should keep in mind that the humanities exist merely to convey magnificence into everybody’s life, with out the inflexible wall that usually exists, particularly within the classical music scene. If the thought of summer time breeze over a straightforward glass of a favorite drink, with passionate stay classical music tickles your fancy, get your tickets quickly and head to the lakeside for this summer time weeknight gem. Data right here.
Worldwide Congress of Voice Academics: Lauren Margison in Live performance
Saturday, August 2, 7:30 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $48+
The Worldwide Congress of Voice Academics convention, July 31 – August 3, invitations all singers, voice academics, artists, and colleges to share and construct additional data and techniques for the way forward for voice schooling, and it occurs each 4 years. For this yr, it’s hosted in Toronto by three establishments: the Nationwide Affiliation of Academics of Singing, the Royal Conservatory, and the College of Music, College of Toronto. This live performance highlights the goal of the convention: to showcase the artistry that the ICVT goals to create and assist. 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 in the course of the TD Toronto Jazz Competition, and the Seashores Jazz Competition — is a good option to convey a combined program of classical, jazz, and pop favs. And a fantastic option to grace a Saturday night. Data right here.
Caledon Music Competition: Track and Dance
Saturday, August 2, 7:15 p.m.
Davis Household Farm, 15770 Mountainview Rd, Caledon East, ON L7C 2V2, $45, low cost tickets obtainable
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 a good way to have a good time the riches of Ontario summer time. Get out to the nation and take a breather and recharge with the wonderful sunflowers — it’s a actually beautiful place. Learn our Interview with Caldeon Music Competition Creative Director Terry Lim right here. Data right here.
Toronto Summer season 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, competition fellows, and the Group Program, since July tenth, Toronto Summer season Music presents its remaining live performance of the competition on this Saturday night. Come out and assist this superb group of people that have so generously shared their ardour and musical ideas, and bid them a farewell — until subsequent yr! Data right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘critical’ music examine when she determined to keep away from attending medical faculty. At the moment working within the subject 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.
