It is a checklist of concert events we’re attending, wishing we may attend, or interested by 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 night time who sings that sky-high F with notoriously tough coloratura passages. Kids on quests, on the lookout for love. Common brotherhood, and the everlasting query of excellent vs evil. Dragon. One of the crucial beloved operas of all instances, 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 complex visible influence and good, stylistic musicianship, OA’s Magic Flute shall be nice enjoyable for all ages to attend, particularly below the educated and charismatic David Fallis’ baton. Let Marshal Pynkoski, stage director, and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg, choreographer, fill out your night with gifted singers, dancers, and musicians, and a fantasy — it’s good to dream, and to goal excessive, particularly when the world appears to be in perpetual battle and hellfire. Learn our Interview with Marshall Pynkoski right here. Data 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 number of Grammy awards, Thile was named BBC’s People Musician of the Yr (2007). He carried on the custom of A Prairie House Companion, because the host (2016-2020) of some of the beloved radio packages 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 people band the Punch Brothers, and Nickel Creek — he even launched a solo Bach album with Nonesuch (2013), which turned an immediate basic (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 may characteristic all issues that curiosity him — from Bach, to folks, and improvisation. To not be missed. Data 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 good yellow daylight of summer season fades into pale gold, two of the very best musicians of our time, Goerne and Trifonov, convey us the depth and pathos of Schubert’s biggest work: Winterreise, Op. 89. The turnaround from the fullness of summer season into the decaying, hole sorrow of winter is at all times 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 tune with a whole story, a universe inside them. Within the age of easy-access recordings and streaming, maybe it’s much more vital 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 awesome night — if tinged with inexorable unhappiness — with the good pleasure that’s the reason for such sorrow. Data right here.
Toronto Chamber Choir: Tempus Imperfectum
Saturday, October 18, 3:30 p.m.
Church of the Redeemer, $ 40/30/5 — pay what you want
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 concert events are meticulously ready, and the exploration of the theme of time and its manipulation is an interesting 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 permit us to reside by means of it? Come and fill your time with TCC, with sound, ideas, and music. Data 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, enjoying some of the 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, by means of the experience of Les Arts Florissants, guarantees an attractive night. Data 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 bit 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 concert events 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 college of the Manhattan College of Music, and each artists are champions of latest music. They’ve curated a program of works for one and two keyboards, and 4 of the composers shall be current for the live performance. Data right here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘severe’ music research when she determined to keep away from attending medical college. At the moment working within the discipline 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.
