This can be a record of concert events we’re attending, wishing we might attend, or serious about attending between July 28 and August 3, 2025. For extra of what’s occurring round Toronto, go to our calendar 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 most interesting countertenors of our time, joins l’Opéra Royal de Versailles underneath the baton of Stefan Plewniak this Tuesday night with a program that includes one of the best works impressed and written for the final nice castrato, Giovanni Battista Velluti. Fagioli, who’s been featured in main opera homes on this planet, together with Salzburg and Covent Backyard, is an actual deal with in a dwell efficiency, particularly within the beautiful acoustic of Koerner Corridor. Come by and take refuge from the new, noisy metropolis summer time, and sink into the great thing about this explicit repertoire, and be mesmerized by the variability and fantastic thing about the human voice. Learn our Interview with Franco Fagioli here. Data 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 an awesome mix of low-key summer time enjoyable with time-tested musical favourites by the gorgeous lakeside. TCO’s deal with making classical music accessible and pleasant to all individuals is a vital 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 time breeze over a straightforward glass of a favorite drink, with passionate dwell classical music tickles your fancy, get your tickets quickly and head to the lakeside for this summer time weeknight gem. Data here.
Worldwide Congress of Voice Lecturers: Lauren Margison in Live performance
Saturday, August 2, 7:30 p.m.
Koerner Corridor, $48+
The International Congress of Voice Teachers convention, July 31 – August 3, invitations all singers, voice academics, artists, and colleges to share and construct additional information 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 Lecturers of Singing, the Royal Conservatory, and the School of Music, College of Toronto. This live performance highlights the purpose 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 Pageant, and the Seashores Jazz Pageant — is a superb option to convey a blended program of classical, jazz, and pop favs. And an awesome option to grace a Saturday night. Data here.
Caledon Music Pageant: Music and Dance
Saturday, August 2, 7:15 p.m.
Davis Household Farm, 15770 Mountainview Rd, Caledon East, ON L7C 2V2, $45, low cost tickets accessible
Davis Household Farm, one of many largest sunflower fields and a favorite place for visible social media followers, hosts the Caledon Music Pageant 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 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 Festival Artistic Director Terry Lim here. Data 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, pageant fellows, and the Group Program, since July tenth, Toronto Summer season Music presents its closing live performance of the pageant on this Saturday night. Come out and help this wonderful group of people that have so generously shared their ardour and musical ideas, and bid them a farewell — until subsequent yr! Data here.
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Cecilia tumbled into ‘critical’ music research when she determined to keep away from attending medical college. At present 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.
